Started thinking about this and the shopping list came out a lot like one you'd need for your own top to bottom security. Would it really be other governments however? I mean as a private, highly technical individual I'd rather (in order of preference)...

1) Set up my own standalone infrastructure (DNS, IPv6, PKI, CA, eBGP?) and have that counter signed by friends, family, colleagues and the gov of any country of which I'm a citizen.
2) Rely on the infrastructure of multiple trustworthy external entities, both private business and gov.
3) Rely on a single, hopefully trustworthy infrastructure provider (where I am ATM).

You know eventually it may boil down to that, I'd guess we'd head to three stereotypes...

1) Acceptance; Either controlled and managed through educated mastery as much as possible or through uneducated disinterest people engage in and allow themselves to be monitored.
2) Mediation; Attempting, regardless of success or even feasibility to allow only either partial or non-invasive monitoring.
3) Rejection; Either active denial (through radio, electronic or electrical jamming, obfuscation or encryption) or significant or total (but not "aggressive") avoidance (such as the Amish).

The first state would (if not already is) the norm, the second (current norm only through lack of technological means) somewhat futile but could maintain a casual level of privacy, the third would be unusual in the "passive" form and potentially (already is to some extents) illegal in the active form.

Adopting any single, static position other than total openness or total passive avoidance would seem pointless and/or futile. Any attempt to remain between the two extremes could only be maintained by the ability to shift between all of them.

Redundant, keep reading the whole "What's New" page and the conspiracy klaxon attached to your tin-foil hat will go into hyper-overdrive...

"
Support for the RDRAND random number generator

Status:
Committed to -CURRENT, MFC-ed to 9-stable
Author:
Konstantin Belousov
Web:
http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/240135
RDRAND is the new Intel's CPU instruction for accessing its hardware random number generator, also known as the code-name Bull Mountain. It is present in Ivy Bridge and newer CPUs.
" ...although it would seem more likely that Konstantin Belousov would be working for the FSB rather than the NSA really. ;^)

Yeah ditto

Someone mod this insightful? Come on it's "obvious" that everyone in the UK Border Agency were all sat around reading Slashdot this morning, http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/08/18/1641241/wikileaks-releases-a-massive-insurance-file-that-no-one-can-open and then spotted this guy's name popup on some list, put two and two together and ended up with a prime. ;^)

Yeah but I bet duck-duck-go, Bing, Yahoo and everyone else noticed. With no idea of the scale behind it, would duck-duck-go cope if Google went away?

Come on, just pack it in now.

As I understand it doing so in UK under the Official Secrets Act may in itself be illegal...

I imagine this has crossed (or should have) the minds of a few people here, is there any "credible" advice about the theoretical process and the best/least-worst practical actions to take if you're approached by your friendly local domestic intelligence agency and told to pony up your company's private keys (for example) along with the explicit instructions not to inform anyone else, ever? For the record I'd like to declare that I've never been in that or any similar position.

Even better, I've got two words for you "Course credit". ;^)

It's okay if not, thanks to the unique way the BBC is funded they'll no doubt be repeating it on Dave-5*+1 at the same time every night for a month before moving on to the next episode.

Yeah but at least we've got The Ministry of Sound and Ministry of Silly Walks.

...will be printing 3D sharks, gluing the firkkin' lasers onto their heads and fitting them with little robotic legs.

In Soviet Brummie-land the companies engineer you!

I live in the UK so I barely get to experience "Summer" on Earth, let alone space you insensitive clod!