content: I would bet not 50 people in the whole country are able to stay 100% out of the Nsa's sticky paws.  i think that may be a very optimistic estimate : ) sold a desktop PC to an old guy once - said he used to work for the government (i forget whether it was directly or as a contractor) and held a pretty high security clearance - maybe crypto we got to talking about surveillance and he had some very interesting things to say but not the time to discuss them, so i suggested that we could continue through encrypted email - he looked at me at said 3 words: "encryption is useless" i was unable to contact him again, but i sure as hell would have liked to know more about his reason for saying that