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So what else, more real, are they doing? OTR and PGP for everyone? Yes?

The first one to add real encryption to their platform could make a lot of money... especially if they are in desperate need of a competitive advantage.

Yahoo! should pivot into a privacy and security conscious company. They're already on record for fighting against government tyranny.

The first one to add real encryption to their platform will have a hard time explaining to their users why their platform is secure and their competitors are not.

The first one to add real encryption will have to figure out how to deal with the angry users who don't understand that if they lose their private key, all their encrypted data is completely gone, forever.

Absolutely fuck all. Damage control and posturing is all they are doing.

Once someone has failed on this scale, they should never be trusted again.

Okay, so who exactly are you going to trust, then? Basically all of the major companies most people use day-to-day have been caught. Are you now going to excise every one of them completely out of your life?

Well it's either that or throw my morals end ethics out of the window instead.

I mean, your morals and ethics are great, but if they lead you to not using any major product because of them, then how effective is that?

I understand sticking by your morals, but literally every big companies has turned over data to PRISM. Not using any of these products because of morals is silly.

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