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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Buttercup" data-source="post: 577421" data-attributes="member: 990">There are a couple of things going on here.  First, we in the US are fairly nervous these days about what many people see as increasing government encroachment on our civil rights in the name of the 'war against terrorism'.  We tend to be a belligerant bunch vis a vis our rights anyway, especially our privacy.Then too, you don't really want to assume that only the guilty are arrested, do you?  I can think of cases where innocent people have had their computers impounded, have been thrown in jail, and have endured all sorts of grief, who were later proved innocent.  And guilty of what, by the way?  In several states in the US, all sexual activity except the missionary position between a woman and man is illegal.  The bottom line is, if you can protect your privacy by taking a few simple steps, why not do it?  Of course, any of us are welcome to take your approach, Fourecks, and probably there will be no ill consequences for doing so.  Free choice.</blockquote>