Do We Have Too MUCH Privacy?

Have you ever heard of the phrase "Big Brother"? I hadn't either, but I jogged over to urbandictionary.com, and found this:

1.	big brother	605 up, 59 down
	The Government. They know everything about everybody.

Holy God. The thumbs, people, the thumbs! This is the world's most agreed upon definition! And as we know, truthiness and truth are the closest of cousins. Is it possible our Government knows everything about everybody? In order to find out if nothing in this world is under cover, I decided to go undercover.

I went to PayPal.com, and tried not a hundred, not even a thousand, but three times to log-in under a friend's name without knowing his password. After some common password attempts ("myfirstpet" and "1"), I remembered that people often randomize their passwords with arbitrary words and meaningless numbers. I tried "scuba559", and you know what I came up with? Jack-nothing. Privacy 1, Government Omniscience 0.

Then my colleague here at Google told me PayPal is actually a subsidiary of a privately-owned and -operated organization called "Google, Inc.", and their security measures against identity theft are wholly independent of the possible prying eyes of our elected leaders. Instantly I knew where my next test was: the DM f'ing V.

The DMV was insanely packed, I don't know if it's a seasonal thing or what. I have a few other things going on today and I was literally dying for a Mexican pizza, so I figured I'd skip ahead to the next test: my cell phone.

ME: Whattup.
JAKE: Yo. Nothin'.
ME: Government?
JAKE: What?
ME: Government?
JAKE: Wait, what?
ME: Government?
JAKE: You know what, I gotta go. PJ's later?

Hurdle cleared. Had the government been on the line, one of three things would have happened (in order of likelihood):

1. The government would have said "yes?"
2. The government would have impersonated the least threatening entity possible - a harmless elderly woman in a wheelchair. Jake probably would have freaked out.
3. The unmistakable "click" of a hurried hang-up.

None of those happened. The government simply doesn't care enough about our cell phone conversations. I actually kind of wish they did.

You're part of the last test right this instant. Does the government read my blog? If you're the government, please comment saying either "Yes" or "No" (I think by clicking on the little pencil).

The trap is set, homies. The trap is set.

[CORRECTION: the second occurrence of the word "Google" above was a substantial misspelling of the word "eBay". It's considered the second-most common typo in the English language, right after separate/seperate.]