I just don't get it. Hacker news, just days ago had a posting: "Police admit they're 'stumped' by mystery car thefts", and the collective response was something

I just don't get it. Hacker news, just days ago had a posting: "Police admit they're 'stumped' by mystery car thefts", and the collective response was something along the lines of "silly police don't know how to use google." And now, the "hackers" are in disbelief that the US government is actually reading their emails and listening to their phone calls. NSS! We got what we wanted here, folks. Information is free - free to be created, free to be read, and free to be copied, stored, decrypted and analyzed by anyone with the means and drive to do so. I don't know who said it, but "Don't put anything online you wouldn't want to appear above the fold of the Wall Stree Journal."