[drivebyacct2]

>I'm not saying you're actually _doing_ any activism

You mightn't have meant it but that was a polite way of provoking a bit of self evaluating. I don't really know what more to do outside of donate to the EFF, write my Congresspersons, etc. But I haven't made nearly an exhaustive effort of investigating what I could be doing.

>It doesn't mesh well with my 'computers are deterministic' general mindset. And really, _especially_ on this privacy front, it's terribly hard to see that these things are going to happen, get called 'crazy' and 'paranoid,' see them happen, and then sigh: "I told you so."

Are both very insightful statements.

[steveklabnik]

:) I think something that's sorely needed is easy-to-use crypto for 'normal' people, and by 'normal,' of course, I mean most of us. I recently set up PGP for all of my email, but it wasn't exactly something that I'd recommend to a non-technical person.

If you're looking for something you could do.

[drivebyacct2]

koush is kind of kicking ass on this front: https://plus.google.com/110558071969009568835/posts/gVt8SWRR...

From his comments it sounds like he's working with other app makers who are making independent apps so this could target everyone, effectively.

I do have a side project that would, at least personally, greatly decrease my dependence/reliance/usage of GMail...