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Their shares went down immediately after due to concerns they forfeited the opportunity to expand their business in the world's 2nd largest economy, but as the immediate economic d…

You can't declare that they're not fighting because you have no knowledge of what is being done by their lawyers and lobbyists, especially since the courts involved are secret. Lob…

Shifting the blame and the burden for policy reform onto firms is not only silly but also unfair, you can't really expect them to shut down, they are not one man operations like La…

The burden isn't on Google (I'm not sure why you are singling out Google) their hands are tied from a legal and practical standpoints. They receive warrants and subpoenas with whic…

Lavabit was a tiny private operation. If you think that a publicly traded multi billion dollar company with millions of users and customers can just shut down to avoid complying wi…

A couple more listed here: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/08/youtubes-geeky-east...

At least they're transparent (as one can be) about it: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/transparency-report-s...

You can't convincingly make that argument since you don't know what lawyers have been doing behind the closed doors of secret court rooms nor do you have knowledge of their relevan…

"Participates" is the wrong characterisation, they are under the jurisdiction of FISA orders, if the NSA wants to call that PRISM, it's their business. Also worth mentioning is tha…

If you are seriously suggesting that abandoning the US market is a realistic option, especially for a multibillion dollar corporation, then you are (and I'm not using this word lig…

How comforting it is to be only subject to French surveillance: http://gigaom.com/2013/07/04/france-has-its-own-prism-like-s...

It's obviously deliberate. Are you not familiar with OS level profiles? in the case of OSX: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11468 there is your master password. Also the post you men…

The master password is that of your OS profile.

Sigh. How does the saying go again: 'misinformed paranoia travels around the world and spawns parody sites before the truth gets a chance to put its pants on and start individually…

Good point, they should have made that distinction in the article.

Instead of just regurgitating whatever is handed out to them, these publication ought to be more skeptical of the claims of a company like Lookout whose business is built on FUD, e…

http://www.bnowire.com/inbox/?id=1953

The most disturbing and disappointing part of the whole story is how it spread without even the slightest attempt to do any journalism work, and now that the truth was uncovered ha…

Even if it was due to her queries, they could have gotten them by tapping ISPs, they tend to comply easier than tech firms.