Again, third-party doctrine. The US Constitution as read by the Supreme Court does not protect communications carried by third parties. NSA surveillance is lega

Again, third-party doctrine. The US Constitution as read by the Supreme Court does not protect communications carried by third parties. NSA surveillance is legal and Constitutional. You are unlikely to find a technological solution which prevents a sovereign government from doing something it is entitled to do. If you find one, its use will be criminalized. We can talk all day ever day about how disappointed we are in our technology companies for obeying the law, but realistically we can't stop them. We can push for more awareness and respect for privacy issues and try to push Congress to give electronic communications the protection we think they deserve. But that's not what we're doing here. I like it when we get new information, but I can't stand that we spend all day talking about how cloud computing is idiotic, sharing I-told-you-so blog posts, and rehashing our displeasure with Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft ad nasuem for their cooperation with binding court orders. Badmouthing manufacturers every time they make a new product that dares to touch the network in any way, shape, or form. This site used to be about making; now it's about impotent rage against government. I miss the days when the first comment on everything someone created wasn't "You shouldn't have made this because it makes it easier for the NSA."