| Two things: (1) The NSA is there to protect us, in theory. (2) There will never, ever be guaranteed privacy or security as long as you continue to use other people's equipment and network. Using the internet expecting privacy is like continually saying, "I'm going to have sex with everyone and going to complain about the people that have STD's." You could try: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network Or: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet Those are a little safer. |
I don't think this comparison is apt. Comparing internet usage to having sex with strangers might be the equivalent of comparing <insert western world leader> to Adolf Hitler in politics. It's not completely wrong, but it certainly makes the discussion considerably more negative, and distort its the details: i.e. casual usage of the internet !== casual sex.
A better analogy for expecting privacy on the internet: I'm going to go to different places outside. Some of them will be completely public, where it's clear anything I say or do can be heard by other people. Other places have walls and give the impression of privacy: although I cannot tell if there are tiny holes in the wall that people can watch me through.
I expect, correctly or incorrectly, different people will know where I am and what I'm doing at a given moment. I also expect that no one person will know all of my day except for me.