To each his/her own escapism. These voluntary shutdowns are not the way to go for the authorities really really like that. Nor expecting to give or receive digital or analogue security and privacy beyond one's own capability to verify or endure the consequences. That is not limited to communications between misconfigured androids who wonder where the hell did that admission of defeat come from. Why it came from the birth chip of mortality, dear. No matter, the security hustlers are never going away for good, only to reappear in new disguises of law, religion, politics, frock, cape, code, retreat in another direction, feint, trick, cheat, cry crocodile tears, cash in the scam, go to the dark side to move up from public service panhandling to fleecing baaramewes. Keeping secret about this security skinning alive is the price of entry to the gold vault. That is why privacy policies and anonymizing services are so misleading. Bluntly, anybody who peddles security is a cheat. Those withdraw it are worse. At 11:44 AM 8/20/2013, you wrote:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175
" My personal decision is to get off of the Internet to the degree it's possible. I'm just an ordinary person. But I really know, after all my research and some serious thinking things through, that I can't stay online personally without losing my humanness, now that I know that ensuring privacy online is impossible. I find myself unable to write. I've always been a private person. That's why I never wanted to be a celebrity and why I fought hard to maintain both my privacy and yours. "
-=rsw