How to remain secure against NSA surveillance

I think it's largely the government's fault that solid crypto isn't already deployed routinely in the majority of your internet activity.

Clearly so -- if not for government interference the system would have had crypto with digital signing (making unauthorized intrusion effectively impossible) long ago.

The NSA has caused one of the basic infrastructures of Western civilization to be hobbled with Swiss cheese security. It's as if (for example) all air bases were required to turn off their radar warning systems at prescheduled times so that the REMFs in Washington would be able to send surprise inspectors and make sure the COs were performing as ordered.

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