Simonianism, was named after Simon Magus and was and is also called "Christianity". Simon Magus is dead. He was early on associated with the Mystery of Iniquity and the attempt to purchase and own the power of God. Consider the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil ..think about it, good and evil fruit coming from the same tree. There's your trouble. The orthodox saints aren't mainstream. I have pointed this out over and over. Foursquare is said to be associated with the Emergent Church movement.
For truest security, public key encryption is basically 'snake oil'...maybe even 'garbage'. Generally and loosely, things like mathematical reduction of complex equations can help discover back doors and 'master keys' especially in poor implementations. It doesn't take too much study of cryptography to come to the conclusion that the best security is found in systems based on shared secrets and private keys. Regarding SSL , there is such a thing as an SSL proxy. It is possible for a box between you and the target system to broker your transaction and see your plaintext. Not to mention issues associated with TCP-windows (known for a long time):
Disabling third-party cookies in your browser is a very good idea IMHO. The exploits against Unix/Linux systems via in DNS were discovered as early as 1996--they are just becoming mainstream now.
P.S. Of Eliphas Levi f/k/a Alphonse Louis Constant it is said that he became the Jesuit Order's "...most renowned Magician and Occultist of the 19th Century, Constant/Levi wrote The History of Magic and was well known to the 'Pontifex Maximus' of Jesuit/Illuminatized Scottish-Rite Freemasonry in America, Albert Pike."