Well, a lot of the measures suggested are in fact perfectly reasonable. You wouldn't give your home phone number and personal address out to just anyone *offline*, would you? So why do it online?

And if you feel perfectly safe in doing that online or off, then you've probably never been harassed.

Paranoia just means that you believe that the world is out to get *you personally* and therefore you take it too far. But there is such a thing as a reasonable wish for privacy, guys.

I don't think that normal people need worry about encrypting their personal email, unless they have things in there so sensitive that they can't take even a 0.01 percent chance of it getting in the wrong hands. But making sure that your browser isn't telling perfect strangers all about you or your surfing habits is a reasonable measure.