&gt;If there&#x27;s something I don&#x27;t want the NSA to know about, I use Tails.<p>This is a nice thought, but probably not realistic for a variety of reasons. Perhaps most relevantly, I would expect that a large quantity of major Tor exit nodes are tapped by the NSA.<p>I would also expect that most servers you talk to are either already tapped by NSA in one way or another or can be tapped by the NSA trivially if they decide they want to see what&#x27;s happening.