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Whatever your views on this are, I hope nobody is actually surprised. If I were a $CURRENT_MEDIA_BOOGIEMAN_SCAPEGOAT_THINKOFTHECHILDREN, I would definitely assume that the usgov has access to any "big data" on the general public and can get it anytime they want. My plans for world-domination won't be sent through gmail or sent in a private message on facebook, or an text-msg on VerizoNSA. I'd take the time to learn and use PGP.

Only regular citizens will be caught by this and... the whitehouse knows it. I only wish the general public could see HN now. Someone with lots of money,looks-at-Google, should buy like 2mins of commercial-time during the Super-bowl to talk about stuff like this.

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I'm no intelligence expert, but I'd be surprised if the NSA would expect something like this to find a "smoking gun" proving that person X is planning Y.

More likely you already have suspects, and your suspects have acquaintances , family etc.

You would be more interested in looking at these people, who do they network with on social media, what are they interested in? Might they be knowingly or unknowingly be providing material support?

You would probably use this information to build up a broader profile and see which avenues are worth investigation.

Ok, but what about companies who store sensitive data and emails on Google Apps for business, especially non US companies ? What about non US citizens who seems to have less protection and spyable at mercy ? Should we the ( whatever your country or citizenship ) avoid by all means US internet corps.

If the American gov wanted to kill the cloud, then good job ! I want to clarify that I do not trust my own gov neither ...

Nobody should store sensitive data and e-mails on a system where they're sitting there in plain text accessible to god knows how many people at Google and their data centers. That's insane.

As Microsoft was the first company to adhere PRISM as stated by the leaked slide, that also means that no company worldwide should ever use office 365, azure or managed sharepoint / exchange !

These software corps better be persuasive because a whole economic part of USA will be endangered then !

Yes. Storing sensitive corporate documents in plain text on servers owned by Microsoft, Google, etc, with no legal protections in place, is retarded.

And nobody should live in a house, sitting there in plain clothes accessible to god knows how many people in their neighborhood.

That doesn't even make any sense. Your house is your private space. Google's servers are someone else's private space. It's like leaving your business documents scattered around a Starbucks and depending on the honor system to ensure nobody reads them.

Hopefully you are not using Windows, because there is a backdoor in it too so that they can grab it before the encryption...

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