> But the bulk of the article was promoting tools for protecting privacy. That's a good thing, no? Some of the stuff that he recommended strike me as ~useless.

> But the bulk of the article was promoting tools for protecting privacy. That's a good thing, no? Some of the stuff that he recommended strike me as ~useless. That rubber mask. The glasses. The silly personal assistant. And so on. And he totally didn't consider how pointless it is for most people to focus on obfuscating activities in meatspace. Unless you're cheating on your spouse, organizing a revolution, dealing drugs, or whatever, it just doesn't accomplish much. And indeed, it flags you as someone who may be up to something. Online is really the only place where you can claw back some privacy. But you gotta make sure that your uplink doesn't flag you. Using numerous VPNs. Using Tor, I2P or Freenet. Lurking around public WiFi hotspots. Those will all raise flags about you. And the focus has gotta be on compartmentalization. You have your meatspace life. Your family, your friends, your career, your hobbies, and so on. And that's gotta look totally uninteresting, from the perspective of adversaries. You gotta blend into the crowd. And then you have your online personas, and their friends, careers, hobbies, etc. Which must be entirely distinct from each other, and from your meatspace life. They must seem like entirely different people. So adversaries can track you all they like in meatspace. And they can track your personas all they like online. But as long as they don't correlate any of that, you're safe.