Believe in yourself and take reasonable steps (use your judgment to discern what's reasonable, including my post) and take adequate steps to ensure your privacy by investigating as much as you can.
Provided you're of sound mind, you're the only person who can't let you down.
This is why they throw out all of this. They know a certain amount of people will just have to disassociate with the situation. I just assume it is happening. I think there are other ways we can help foster a safe environment though, without all of these controls and spying.
Occam's Razor is still good. Likewise for Hanlan's Razor (remember that Greenwald and WaPo both are drawing fairly specific conclusions from a couple of slides that are using jargon and not plain English).
