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<i>If you are still using GMail (or Yahoo, or arbitrary US-based email company) in August, your right to complain about the NSA spying on you is revoked. If you’re complaining about government spying on the Internet, or in a gathering of programmers, and you won’t take basic steps to do anything about it, then you’re a hypocrite, full-stop. </i><p>I don't understand this point of view. Your opinion on how fair or legal or morally right a law is has nothing to do with the steps you've taken to avoid that law.<p>Why do the "basic steps to do anything about it" stop at protections that the technically-skilled can take, rather than contacting and complaining to your Congressperson or otherwise actual attempts to have the law changed?<p>And how useful is it to run your own encrypted email server if the email message itself isn't encrypted in transit?