Someone's being overly idealistic: "Do you know who’s watching you, do you know who’s looking into your emails or possibly could?. Do you trust your service pr

Someone's being overly idealistic: "Do you know who’s watching you, do you know who’s looking into your emails or possibly could?. Do you trust your service provider not to filter your data, or not to look at what you’re sending and receiving? "What I’m proposing or trying to do, is to move on." [...] "Imagine you’re on your cell phone. Today, if you want to connect to anybody else you need to go to your provider. But imagine your cell phone has a wi-fi chip, and most of them have it anyway, it creates a local network. Imagine that network is an ad hoc network and can immediately connect with other networks. So all the cell phones we have create their own small networks and become interconnected with each other. That gives you a whole range of possibilities, and because you need no infrastructure externally, you make it by yourself. You have a cell phone, someone else has a cell phone, you just create it; you can have free network access." Let me see if I got that straight: we don't trust a handful of highly-visible, high-profile entities to behave honorably (i.e. not snoop on us, not filter our stuff, etc.), so we'll just crowdsource it? Right now we have a handful of suspects who have to walk on eggshells because everyone's itching to find something to blame on them. It's far from ideal, but I don't think handing over my communications to my neighbors or, even worse, arbitrary strangers is a step in the right direction.