You are wrong on this one...
If you can't be found you can't be a target. The trick is not to be found, that is the hard part. Most people don't want to truly sacrifice to the level needed to be anonymous.
If you don't want to be anonymous, but somewhat safe there is a tip I learned from the Viet Cong. You need to look like every other peasant, that is easy and works as long as you keep a low profile and a practice a few precautions.
The one thing about computers most people don't know is that they are completely insecure, even the ones behind locked doors in the NSA or Langley. I met a guy once while I worked at Microsoft who was commissioned to make a "totally secure" system. He did after a fashion, the only problem was that it cost billions of dollars and required CS trained users. So, for most of us it is an impossible goal.
He said that the more accessible you make a system the less secure it gets and while you can be somewhat secure and popular you really can't be both popular and totally secure. It is all about risk management.
