Sorry…I shouldn’t post a lot while on pain meds (morphine for the win woohoo!).
Unfortunately, even if there were to be a protest that included, say, a million or more people. All that would do, seriously, is tell the NSA (and, by extension, the government) what they already know. People are highly pissed off and getting more paranoid by the day. Part of the problem, as I see it, is that even if the NSA were to publicly change the way that they do things, absolutely nobody is going to believe anything that they say. When the Director goes before a Congressional committee and blatantly lies, and people see that nothing is done about it, everyone pretty much knows that things aren’t going to change.
Personally, I think that if more and more people were to use encryption software, working encryption software, for email, file transfers and even just general internet usage, the TLA’s would have to spend a hell of a lot more money in attempting to decrypt everything. When it comes to cell phone usage and the NSA/FBI’s illegal grabbing of same, I don’t think things are going to change no matter what anyone does. The NSA in particular is pretty much a law unto itself. The CIA was that way back in the 60’s and 70’s but seems to have turned into an agency full of Keystone Kops. Since I use my cell phone maybe once a month, I don’t generally worry about that. They can already track me through my home phone since it’s bundled in with my cable and internet.
btw, where are you in the world? I was under the (mistaken and stupid) assumption that you were here in the States. I have no idea why, it just seemed that way to me.
