You can encrypt, burn, destroy into a million pieces, but somewhere someone may have a copy, and they are not going to pick the same boundaries as you do. Even with business it still is not secure because behind every business is a human, and every one knows human nature rules. There are five countries pulling the shots, and that means we can create the extra security, but having five countries with access to data is not the same as having one business having access. We don't know who is looking at this data. We also don't know who has it bad for cash, or whom is being blackmailed, etc. The NSA is our worst nightmare. They are involved in every part of our lives. Where we leave a trail the NSA has picked our trail up. We have no protection because the NSA is so vast and vulnerable itself. There also would be no way the NSA would look the other way if such a new secure service was available to the public. You would have to go underground. But it only stays underground until a user post the info on their social network account. Look at the places they have already shut down for not allowing the NSA in, or for business that could not guarantee privacy. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/rieder/2013/08/12/reider-nsa-snooping-collateral-damage/2642557/

<quote><p>But what can be done? "Outrage" doesn't achieve anything. It became abundantly clear the moment senior members of the military were caught lying and nothing was done, that what the public think doesn't matter. So why should the public make a fuss? Waste of energy.</p><p>CNN and the likes are just reflecting the fact that the general story is by now well known and not news. The NSA lies and is totally out of control. It does everything the most paranoid people ever imagined, and more. OK. Got it. Next story.</p><p>But make no mistake. The right people are still paying attention. Behind the scenes there's a lot going on in a lot of places. All kinds of people who previously would not have included government agencies in their threat models are now starting to do so. Change will take years, perhaps decades, and enormous amounts of technical talent is going to be wasted fighting the US government by trying to blind it with more effective encryption. Success is by no means guaranteed. But without a doubt those members of the general public who have the ability to take part in that are still paying attention.</p></quote>

Nullification can be done. Refusal or failure of a U.S. state, city, county to recognize or enforce a federal law within its boundaries.

<quote>Thomas Jefferson, draft of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 first introduced the word &ldquo;nullification&rdquo; into American political life, and follow-up resolutions in 1799 employed Jefferson&rsquo;s formulation that &ldquo;nullification&#8230;is the rightful remedy&rdquo; when the federal government reaches beyond its constitutional powers. In the Virginia Resolutions of 1798, James Madison said the states were &ldquo;duty bound to resist&rdquo; when the federal government violated the Constitution.

But Jefferson didn&rsquo;t invent the idea. Federalist supporters of the Constitution at the Virginia ratifying convention of 1788 assured Virginians that they would be &ldquo;exonerated&rdquo; should the federal government attempt to impose &ldquo;any supplementary condition&rdquo; upon them &ndash; in other words, if it tried to exercise a power over and above the ones the states had delegated to it. Patrick Henry and later Jefferson himself elaborated on these safeguards that Virginians had been assured of at their ratifying convention.</quote> read more here: http://www.libertyclassroom.com/nullification/

cities, counties, and states need to nullify any and all parts that go against the Constitution.

This is the real reason as to why the Feds haven't touched a hair on the heads of the States that legalized pot.

<quote><p>I personally don't give a shit if you are left or right, I lean so socialist I'm often called "Slashdot's resident hippie" yet I think Obama should be investigated to see what he knew and Holder should be cooling his heels in prison right now, and that he is not just shows what he was doing was approved of by those at the top. Treason can only flourish if none dare call it treason and if you go by the government's own standards and consider drug cartels to be narco-terrorists? Then Holder aided terrorists and should be in jail and possibly looking at the death penalty.</p></quote>

It is not just Obama that needs investigating it's the whole Government. For decades now it has been one thing or another going on. It's either Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Israel, Mexico cartel, or it's Iraq, or even the United States. We have had maybe just a few stable months without havoc. The rest was he said, she said, he did, or did not do, or a war was brewing, or civil unrest was eminent. You are either for us, or against us. Lastly it has been be damned if we do, and be damned if we don't. The list goes on. We can't win for loosing because we are just cycling through the same crap at a different place all the time.

What is all looks like to me is our Government has let all of that power they have go to their head. They proved it too by creating a monster called the NSA. Now the Senate and House want Americans to do their bidding and just agree with what they are doing to the laws in our land that they created. A few Americans are sitting on their bumpers in front of the TV hoping everything comes out OK. The others don't care as long as they have a roof over their head a meal on the table and a 25.6 hour a week job to go to. Sheesh :/ What a mess.

&ldquo;When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.&rdquo;

Thomas Jefferson

<quote><p><b>America did built internment camps in the 1940's for Japanese-American US citizens, has used mass graves for Native Americans during the Trail of Tears, and just recently held an entire major US city under lock down to catch 2 suspected bombers</b></p><p>So much for the "lots of guns" joke.</p></quote>

Yes and under the lock down they got in lots of practice! I think they did a swell job don't you? /s

will allow it to store credit data for them then down the road you will hear about the worst security breech of consumer data including their credit, debit and paypal accounts. They will whimper and ask how did it happen? After getting the sorry excuse... Then it will be pushed to the side just like the many other breeches in consumer data in the past. meanwhile the robots will just order a new card and move on like nothing happened.

1. They will be sued until they are broke.
2. The search engines will be told to blacklist their site.

So where do I send the computer illiterates that can't handle a PC?

On one side you have those that see the problem, but see no real way to do anything about it. Just a few stating they don't want to bring (ahem) attention to themselves. On the other side you have those that will do nothing. Who state you can't do anything because security in the States is not really security. Most security in the tech world is done by third parties that can be breached by the NSA. You also hear of those that complain but see no outlet because big tech companies like Facebook have so far gotten a free ride at the expense of their members personal information. Policy means nothing unless the public is actually protected.

In all honesty I don't know whom to believe anymore when it comes to security one day you are secure and the next day you're not. Either way you be-damned. Your not secure even when you are secure so just pick a browser and enjoy the ride. Your mileage will vary.