http://routersecurity.org/ It just simply doesn't matter. To have a modern lifestyle, depends upon having devices of dubious or poor security. The government has shown a willingness to accumulate dossiers (seemingly including IRC chats), and then leak them when it serves their own needs. Our Congress is criminally incompetent. The chairman of the House Oversight committee just had his secret service application leaked, and there is no threat of the the most powerful tools that Congress has: appropriations micromanagement (famously done in Congressional reconstruction) or impeachment. The same goes for Benghazi (which probably was a meeting with a rebel group that went sour). I think our government is more malicious and less competent than Hoover's FBI. For comparison: “Another early Bureau practice was to index names on lists when the list reflected possible association with a subversive group (e.g. Communist Party petitions or subscriptions to the Daily People's World), or where the names might have future reference value (American Legion contacts, loyalty forms). The heavy demands on staff time and resources, however, and the absence of substantial information about the individuals whose names appeared in the this context caused the Bureau to limit indexing in these areas. In 1949 the Executive Conference decided that names on Communist Party petitions and subscription lists to the Daily Worker and Daily People's World be indexed in the appropriate field office only.”