Since you are sending encrypted packets as data (over ATT or whoever) all they see are encrypted
data packets going to Switzerland.

How it works:
With your phone you get a phone # that goes through Switzerland.
Any secure calls you make are routed through the servers there.
any calls you receive to this number are routed through the Swisserver.
Anyone attempting to eavesdrop only see encrypted data going to a server
beyond their reach. No way to link a caller to a recipient or view the communication.
No decryption on the server - only end to end - so no one can access the server and get anything useful.

What you get - and an estimated value.
A Smartphone (your buying it upfront - price not buried in a 2 year contract) worth maybe $350+-.
2 years of Silent Circle (you can get this for any android/iphone for $10/mo - 100 per year. $200-$240+-
Android PrivateOS - gives deep control over what apps access what phone features (address book, wifi, etc...) $20+
3 1 year "Friends & Family" SilentCircle subscriptions. $300+-
Plus more...

Blackphone is not for those who want to believe they can get privacy on the cheap.
It is for those for whom privacy/security is not an option.

The team that developed Blackphone includes Phil Zimmerman creator of PGP encryption the standard in email encryption.
Anyone who thinks PZ would be involved in a project that rips people off, doesn't know Phil.
Anyone who thinks PZ would be involved with Blackphone if it wasn't secure, doesn't know Phil.

Who might see value in the Smartphone?
Obviously the need changes depending on whether you are in Iran, Russia or the US.
Journalists, CEOs, Business Travelers, Protest organizers, Gov Contractors,
Employees (working on new product development) etc...
state medical marijuana growers concerned with overzealous FEDs. etc...

Must be some legal/regulatory reason that Coinbase does not offer this....

Hello Ohiofarmer,
I am an OhioSmallBusinessman.
Being in the backwaters of the state (Toledo) I hadn't run into anyone who had bought bitcoin (although I am pretty much at work or home almost all of my waking hours).
At any rate, I wanted to see if there was any local interest so I placed an ad on localbitcoins a week or so ago (the closest listing on localbitcoin was 45 minutes away) I got my first response and met at a Tim Horton's a mile from my home. Turns out the 2 gents who showed up owned a local retail outlet and were there to buy their first coin. We ended up talking for several hours. Had a fun time. I am looking forward to meeting others. I don't really want to sell the coin I have but I figure that it is easy enough to buy more on an exchange. You might try doing the same. Help expand the universe of bitcoin.

They have "sneakishly" shut down deposits also.
The deposit bitcoin link is still server error. Since the Ripple deposit link generates addresses/QR codes, It isn't at my end.

Snappy indeed! That Oops page pops right up!

Can't deposit Bitcoin either. When not getting Oops server error I get that Incapsula error.
The deposit Ripple link seems to at least generate the address & qr code - not interested.

I bought some memory enhancing vitamins but keep forgetting to take them. 

I understand completely what you are saying.
AND
I am saying that your chart is accurate except on the 10, 100, 1000 allUSD charts,
RED should be BLUE and BLUE should be RED.

You may have just stumbled upon what the gov will do with the seized DPR coin.

See the added pic.
If the average ask price was $475+-
Why would the average of people bidding be $526+-
I would think that a close analysis would reveal that meeting the asking price is sufficient.

Let me try to explain differently...

Charts/allUSD/1000 btc Price -  at 17:30  bid 512  ask 482
Charts/allUSD/10,000 btc Price -at 17:30 bid 471  ask 518
one is the inversion of the other. (approximately)
10,000 is correct
chart for 1000, 100, 10 are inverted

The odds of the aggregate bid price being higher than the aggregate ask price by $40 and no trades happening
on any of the exchanges represented is about nill. And yet on your charts, it is all day.

Refreshed.
See Charts tab
allUSD 10BTC MKT Exec Price
vs
allUSD 10000BTC MKT Exec Price

On your no subscription price chart, looking at Q10000, the spread ranges from 30 to 60.
at Q10, Q100, Q1000 the spread ranges from -20 to -60
Are these colored wrong - or am I missing something?

A diversified stash is best - because we just don't know what the future holds.
Gold, bitcoin, cash - there are scenarios where any one of these could be rendered useless
and possibly 2 of them. Very unlikely all 3 at the same time though.

If you are storing for years and will not be actively buying/selling, and tend to forget things, consider copying this list (at least IV) into a text file that you copy onto the Linux drive. That way 4 years from now when you read an article about Bitcoin hitting $50,000 and decide to access your BTC100, you can refresh your memory as to the process. Some of the steps you could forget (unplug internet) others are obvious (grab beers).

What I find annoying is when I do a search on bitcointalk, and get multiple links to read, check out 1, hit the back button to go back to my search list, it says I am searching too quickly and need to wait 60 seconds.

Just last month, it was revealed that unbeknownst to Google, the NSA had tapped into Google's datacenters.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304391204579177104151435042

If the NSA can do this to Google, the "health care service" or "gun control" place you speak of don't have a chance in hell. And if NSA has gets the data, they all get the data.

This notion of yours seems to be at odds with everything bitcoin represents.
Selling this idea to Bitcoiners will be like trying to sell fur coats to members of PITA.

Good luck - (not really).

What bothers me is if a scheme like redlisting was implemented, you couldn't get it cleaned up as easy as calling up and saying "I'm Mike Herns, make mine white..."
You would be calling a Law Enforcement Agency.
You would need to prove who you are - SS# or such.
Then our Ameri-centric omnipotent government will come back to haunt you...

Dear taxpayer, 3 years ago when you sold your $30,000 car for bitcoins, it was worth $200usd
1 year ago when you put a down payment on your home with these bitcoins they were worth $400usd.
It appears that you did not include this profit as capital gains on your tax return..."

How about this:
If 75% of bitcoiners are accumulating and 25% are spending, how long until group a has all the coin?
Follow-up question:
In the above scenario, how long until stores that accept bitcoin stop accepting them because it isn't worth the hassle since very few sales are happening?