I understand the point, however, IMO there have been significant revelations since Snowden. If I tried to start a conversation under the assumption that the NSA has full access to all my emails prior to Snowden, most people would have called me crazy. Heck, even after Snowden, when I suggested it, not everyone thought that our emails were being read. Prior to Snowden, everyone in the NSA and the US government would have denied it.

For the general public, we've gone from something that could be believably denied to cold fact in the last three months.

That's not to say that techies shouldn't have been paranoid enough to use lavabit or something like it, but I think it matters to Jones that even options like that are becoming unsustainable.

But, that aside, I think stopping Groklaw was about as strong a statement that she was in a position to make. A lot of people will miss that newsletter. There is a tangible change brought to their lives due to a surveillance state. It's kinda like the SOPA blackout. Consciousness raising and all that.