Ah yes, "c". We all now the ugly reality, aren't we?

Wait, I can swear that I've heard that one before somewhere...

Wait, it's 2 = 0 then? Great Scott, my whole life is a lie!

Please mod parent up, sadly out of mod points today.

Russian here. I just had a laugh of the day, thanks )

Well, for example, it's much easier for third parties (*cough* NSA *cough*) to obtain user's data in bulk from one "cloud service" than from dozens/hundreds/thousands of workstations or SBS's.

He probably meant "Rip what you sew".

Strange as it may seem, there's an xkcd quote for that.

Egads, man, just think what they'll do to poor Venus! It won't be terraforming, it would be terracide!

...not that there's much difference sometimes.

Let's nuke it all from the orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

Sorry for the overused quote, but it just had to be here.

Well, for example, some of the victims may become traumatized enough to seek revenge against his/her offenders and do something really nasty... like, say, become a head of NSA or GCHQ and bring demise to the society that allowed said offence in the first place? Hmm...

We all know how this ends - one small boy in a damaged starfighter or one billionaire in high-tech suit with a nuke on his back and this mighty army of yours suddenly turns into a mound of scrap metal. Not to say that an army of machines is often considered evil - in itself or as a tool of some bad guys.

Nope, there's a big difference between "can't" and "don't want to until there is no other option". It's just a path of the least resistance - why spend hours or even days on decrypting some messages when you can just write one letter, receive the keys and read everything anytime you want? But that doesn't mean that they don't have the means of breaking encryption if they really want to.

Probably somewhat around two football fields.