This is a great overview and a list of useful tools and technologies. Kudos to the author! However, I am afraid that using those tools to protect your own priv

This is a great overview and a list of useful tools and technologies. Kudos to the author! However, I am afraid that using those tools to protect your own privacy is at best a temporary band-aid as long as the current trend of accepting more and more backdoors into our personal lives persists. To change this a significant portion of people need to see the government not as the main savior from terrorism (poverty, disease, crime, etc.) but as a big bureaucracy where a lot of clerks care more about their paycheck than the end results of their day's work (which is fine). And a large portion of public servants who do care, care more about their career, power and perception than about people who chose them to govern (which is bad). This view change, if it ever happens, should force government to justify their actions and pay more attention to real issues (poverty, crime, disease, terrorism) and less to scare tactics. A used car salesman can provide a useful service -- knowing that a customer suspects him to be a swindler forces him into a partial honesty. That said, I am not optimistic that this view change will happen soon.