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Maybe the NSA came for their files and they don't want to shill on their users but also got one of those security letters so they can't say anything about it. Maybe this is a heroic move for us against the US government and we'll never know. Might explain the hasty timetable too.

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A business we like does something we don't like: the NSA probably caused it.

Maybe companies are just capable of doing things we like and don't like and our liking them is just a cognitive bias of our historical cherry-picking of good things over bad.

Actually I'm quite ambivalent about it, I never used ubuntuOne. The problem is there is now precedent for this, and it's all secret. We can't know one way or the other about this or a ton of other stuff. It's more a comment that the NSA has thrown up a huge amount of uncertainty about a lot of things and you can now second guess so many things. And that sucks.

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