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Going forward don't store your bitcoin wallet on gmail or other cloud provider because you might help some analyst pay off their gambling debts.

Also if you are working with a foreign company that is competing with a major US company don't use cloud providers since the NSA has engaged in industrial espionage.

"The first came from a Baltimore Sun report which said the European consortium Airbus lost a $6bn contract with Saudi Arabia after NSA found Airbus officials were offering kickbacks to a Saudi official.

'The paper said the agency "lifted all the faxes and phone-calls between Airbus, the Saudi national airline and the Saudi Government" to gain this information' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/820758.stm




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