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3. Did you accidentally click on a link to AlJazeera?

Or maybe clicked on links to the Occupy movement? Perhaps one of Anonymous's Websites? Send an E-mail to Russia or Egypt? Receive one from there (even junk E-mail)?

Do you have anything to fear from a secretive organisation like NSA only having the routing information of your Web requests and telephone numbers and such, with no context (that might be even worse than having the whole damn E-mail)?

If you don't care about it because you have nothing to hide, I remember the days in the USA when you had to sign for your mail if it came from a Communist country - because I was an avid shortwave listener I had to do so quite frequently.

I wonder if my actions as a thirteen-year-old had any effect on my security clearance when I joined the military five years later? I could not do the job I wanted to in the US Navy because I could not pass a background check. Small-town boy from Central Michigan whose father was killed in Vietnam when he was seven. Didn't even have a television. (Still don't.) What could I have possibly done that was subversive, other than get on the FBI's surveillance list?