[General Questions and Answers] Donphillipe:
Me thinks you are part of La Résistance, but me also thinks you are about 60 years or so too late. There is no capable resistance any longer ... yes you can add tiny font HTML email signatures "assassinating the President is a crime that would be expected of terrorists and likely with nuclear weapons but our drones explode them" and such or you could stack the same metadata into videos of dancing babies and cats playing the piano while flooding the net with them. (And oh, don't we love them!) All it will do is get you more recognition on the radar. No one will join you in your effort. You see, when Edward Snowden made his declaration to the world, that was our last chance to reverse the oppressive movement of our political climate post-9-11. Guess what? No one said much of anything; so the battle is pretty much lost.

To understand why you might feel so alone in your concern, however, look as closely as amongst us here in this so-called smartest of the smartest ranks of the wise, developers and engineers, and all such Rhodes Scholars can muster is an act of clowns suggesting your concern can be answered in terms of foil wrappers and tin hats. Effective RF shields they both are I do have to admit, but that was not the jest of their effort to belittle your concerns, intelligence and infer you have some mental disorder.

But me thinks the accusation of mental deficiency has been ill-placed. These are of the same citizenry who believe tough political decisions can be defined as who gets added to Utopia reality TV, voted off Survivor or who wins the next Bachelorete. They believe there are no true issues in life unless it involves loss of their data signal, a Candy Crush Saga defeat or discovering McDonald's has closed early for the evening. Just look at NetNeutrality; all the vast wizardry of the massive technical community from the country who invented the Internet can come up with is about 3 million complaints; and loss of NetNeutrality will change the landscape of the Internet as we know it, forever.

So tearlach2, don't let them make too much fun. Me thinks you are onto something. It's not until you have been around a while, studied history a bit or have had the privilege of a lifetime near a very close friend in their 80's who grew up in Communist Europe that you can really gain insight on the progression of a country and it's government as it moves from democracy to oppression. Back then and according to my friend, it was as easy task of dropping a piece of iron into the right gearbox at the right time to shut down the government's forced work factory. But wish Au Revoir to such acts of La Résistance; today your best bet is to escape to a 3rd world country where the corruption is on a much lower face to face level. At least there, you have a level playing field.

You see Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” It doesn't take a rocket scientist for those among us who sat and listened to propaganda films back in school during the 50's, films that drove home why we had to fight Communist oppression, and for us to discover today that the same thing that meant fighting a war back then is the same thing that our government is doing to us today. And a very few seem to understand that. When things move slowly, people can't really see change, so with no concept of anything other than today, especially when no one cares any longer about history, then how could anyone be expected to realize a problem is festering? Certainly our government does, with tanks and riot gear being long funded for some time and in the name of protecting our nursery schools. Galileo was one of the first to figure out that things move slowly but when when you watch closely, they reveal a startling truth. It will take until the next generation when our friends will finally wake up, forced to learn from a short history lesson of the once near-successful experiment called America and what a grand place it was to live in its time. This assumes of course that Climate Change is also not tied to a line in the sand that has long been crossed and can never be returned to again.