I'm not saying you should not watch what the government knows about you. It is that you should also watch what everyone else knows about you. I always get conf

I'm not saying you should not watch what the government knows about you. It is that you should also watch what everyone else knows about you. I always get confused in these threads because I cannot separate those who are worried about the privacy of their data from those who simply hate the government (or even the idea of government). If you're trying to deploy a cryptosystem that relies on popularity to be really useful, then you'll need to get "average Joe" to buy into it, and I suspect the best way to do that is to point out all of the possible Big Brothers out there, not just rabble-rabble about the gubbmint alone.