Finally, Elijah, a voice of sanity among the hysteria about way over-hypedsmall number of NSA revelations magnifying and exposing the unexceptional Lavabit scam. Online insecurity has been well understood since online was invented. probably the worst ever of any means of technological communication. Cryptographic protecton for a porous infrastructure appears the most likely cause of the delusion, a favorite export of this list and other crypto fora. Only recently has the fundamental weakness of online communications has this delusion received adequate attention and for the weakness of NSA infosec can be thanked for that. Attention is not yet adequate for this commercial exploitation of what comsec wizards have kept far too quiet about, although this list raised alarms from the gitgo of encryption boosterism. Commercial and non-official exploitation of the comsec delusion remains far greater than that of official spies, including essential undergirding of official spying. Privacy policies in particular were invented as a ruse to divert attention from ubiquitous spying on the public by online services whether of governmental, commercial, institutional, non-profit, personal, anonymizing, traffic hiding, the gamut of Internet opportuniism pretty well demolished by Mozorov and others, especially on this list, but not so much on other lists and fora which ban incredulity, doubt, skepticism and "off-topics" concerning comsec. Time for more than shutting down enterprises that have betrayed the public for two decades, that only allows the perps to escape full accountability by governmental, commercial, institutional, non-profit, personal, anonymizing, traffic hiding, the gamut of Internet opportuniism. Anonymity and leak exploiters deserve special attention for running bait and switch operations which have led the public to believe in shitty security for submissions, media coverage, honesty and nobility of purpose indistinguishable from the gov-com-org kind of hucksterism pushed as a target. Greenwald and Assange, what have you done to Manning and Snowden. For the answer, read cypherpunks archives.