I think you cut right to the core of where I get lost in the VPN argument. Tunneling (even through TOR) isn't sufficient if you have someone well funded, highl

I think you cut right to the core of where I get lost in the VPN argument. Tunneling (even through TOR) isn't sufficient if you have someone well funded, highly skilled, and very motivated to watch you. I would posit that purely technical solutions will never solve human problems. Perfect, unbreakable, encryption can be trivially passed with a set of cleverly placed jumper cables. The key, in my opinion, is trying to align technology with the laws that (mostly) already successfully protect us from jumper cable wielding adversaries. From my understanding, The U.S. government interprets "metadata" as having no societal expectation of privacy and therefor they don't need a warrant to collect it. These questionable metadata collection programs seem like they can be effectively thwarted through half measures, like E2E encryption of the metadata (use HTTPS and DNS over HTTPS), obfuscation of the metadata through tunneling (use VPNs), etc. Some metadata I don't have a good answer for, like location data when my cellphone pings the local towers. I can chose to share my location data w/ the tower so it can route calls to me, and submit to that possibly ending up in a government database, or I can keep my phone from talking to the cell tower being unable to send/receive calls. I don't see a half measure...