I want to address larger issues, such as using proxy servers to solve some basic problems. It should be absolutely clear that software running on your computer cannot and will not take information from it without your permission or knowledge. We're always under surveillance, one way or another, with cameras in coffee shops and on freeways. Yes, in some ways we're putting a surveillance system in place around the world, and that's the flip side. But there are circumstances in life where things come back and bite us.
Divorce is one that's easy for people to understand.
They record everything we do, and those tapes can be used in court. For example, I get telephone calls from wives who know their husbands go to porno sites and want to know how to spy on them. They already know how to snoop with caches, but one woman wanted to do more. I didn't help her. Then there was a woman whose daughter was getting junk porno spam.