This story seems pretty carefully thought out in its analysis. I wonder if some of the claims in it are true. That would be somewhat interesting, although I'm still stuck on the more important issues of the PRISM revelation (the ease of the potential for criminal spying on anyone, especially Americans, the lies told by American companies to Americans and foreigners, and the damage caused to those companies and their clients by this forced compliance). We've already dropped Google's services. It looks pretty clear that the original articles on PRISM were technically inaccurate (wrong) in some relevant (if not important) ways but I'm less inclined than most here to look for the most charitable interpretation of the words of those who have just been shown to be lying to my face so vociferously. Reality probably does not include an NSA that can access anyone's servers but we've known for years that, here in San Francisco, there is an NSA room to which feeds for some of these sites are duplicated. Many seem to believe that this must be for ease of returning search results to the feds but isn't a simpler explanation that it houses a mirror of commercial servers (so that they could continue to legitimately claim no access to company servers and produce no load issues for engineers to find)? Many here seem to believe that the access could be real time. They read "watch your ideas as you type" as something magical but isn't a simpler explanation that they meant what most near-lay-people mean when they say that... that it has capability like google's autocomplete (which also lends credence to the mirror idea)?
