Rustan

Immediate action on many fronts is needed, and when that happens there is pushback like in NZ now. Getting past that means some actual change.

I've done the same, but switched to: * Autistici/Inventati (http://www.autistici.org) for email and jabber * owncloud for files, calendar, news, contacts * cyanogenmod and f-droid instead of vanilla android and google play

Great site! Switching over from 500px.com

Use Autistici/Inventati: http://www.autistici.org

Same here, I have an account now.

This is a very strange way to think. In an ideal world it could be enough to just continue to use insecure services. But we are clearly not living in an ideal world, and even if all governments could be stopped from doing this type of thing there would for sure be others that would take advantage of the information. Just acting politically is not enough.

I strongly disagree with your statement that using encryption will make you passive. Instead it is the other way around: if you continue to use compromised services despite knowing the dangers you will become passive and lose your ability to think clearly about the issues at stake.

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Or just the same types of things, but in lower quantities and with higher quality, to a higher price. It is not strange to buy toys for kids, but buying crap that is added to already large piles of crap and used just a few times is just bad for all humans and the environment (with the only "positive" being short-time profit for the consumer industries).

Exactly. Most businesses built around Drupal as a technolgy are consultancies.