For the last five or so years, I've used an encrypted primary partition, and the occasional TrueCrypt vault when necessary. I also have recently moved most of m

For the last five or so years, I've used an encrypted primary partition, and the occasional TrueCrypt vault when necessary. I also have recently moved most of my personal storage to Dropbox and Google Drive, with no encryption for the usability benefit. And I've changed almost nothing since the "PRISM revelations". In fact, I've begun to post more under my actual name, without any anxiety over "NSA" activity. It may have become a cliché, but I always identified with the logic of continuing to fly after 9/11 to not let the "terrorists win". Us vs. them-speak aside, the sentiment holds true that the best means to oppose a new "threat" is to hold course. If "government overreach" is really as bad as some claim, someone will be jailed for posting some innocuous musings, and will serve as proof and catalyst for meaningful change. But the far worse outcome would be to suppress free expression based on a nebulous fear of government surveillance (the NSA was formed from a WW2 era signals agency that at one point inspected almost all telegraph transmission to and from the US). And yet we still have a tendency to idealize the past as an embodiment of more pure "American values".