>>257
The last sentence of your answer made me tear up a bit...
Anyway, that's a pretty loaded question. It's pretty damn hard to convince people of anything they don't care about. People tend to react only when they can see how things directly affect them. Until there's a specific example or two about an average person with a lot of media coverage, people just won't care that much. The second barrier is that using everyday cryptography is daunting for the average user. If you have the means to make the technology to use cryptography easier to use or understand, do it!

>>259
Have you ever had an embarrassing e-mail/website history/search term found by somebody else? If not, what's the worst thing you can imagine somebody finding?