[1]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.”

References

   1. http://routersecurity.org/