Sorry for the fairly off-topic rant, but this is something I had on my chest for quite a while. I love how, in the discussions around the NSA, nobody brings up

Sorry for the fairly off-topic rant, but this is something I had on my chest for quite a while. I love how, in the discussions around the NSA, nobody brings up the fact that American tax money are also used to pay for it (not to mention other shady shit going on in the US, like IRS, generalised police corruption, ridiculous military spending, etc). Wake the fuck up, people; you get irate when company X or Y doesn't go over the top to protect their users' privacy against the NSA, but totally disregard the actual problem of mass surveillance (and all the other "anti-terrorism" crap, that's been proven to work by the way). Things don't happen in a vacuum, NSA and PRISM didn't just magically appear, so let's at least start by naming names (I'll start, check out this fucking asshole: http://9to5mac.com/2014/10/13/fbi-apple-google-encryption-interview/ http://9to5mac.com/2014/10/13/fbi-apple-google-encryption-in...). (For an eventual "uh, but what do you do about it, talking is easy, derpa derp", my day job is building (a|yet another) zero knowledge email service.)