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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 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.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?And how useful is it to run your own encrypted email server if the email message itself isn't encrypted in transit?