[osivertsson]

I'm in Europe (Sweden), and while a lot of people on HN and in the tech community care, most other people I know here just don't have this on their top 100 list of things they worry about.

That said, I agree that sensitive or not, we really shouldn't be sharing everything over only a handful of communication channels (typically home & work broadband connection + mobile phone data connection). It makes surveillance all too easy.

This is where I think smart people could make a difference. When I want to share data with someone in the same location as me we should really be talking P2P only. It wouldn't allow NSA & co to get the same full picture as easy as they can now with central data hubs and only a few communication channels.

[xavel]

I'm from Germany, so I see what you mean -- in Europe, especially central and northern europe, there's hardly any need to share files physically. But alternatives are necessary in times like these, which is why I'm glad things like P2P-services exist.

I guess you could say I'm merely planning for the future. Not that I wish that I'd ever actually have to go about sharing data via physical mediums, but I wouldn't exactly bet on it.