So we have an anonymous coward who is whining about other people feeling they have something to hide. You realize what a fool you look like by posting this comment as AC?

Delete your wiki edits/comments, so they cannot claim ownership of what you wrote.

People who are pissed off at Edward Snowden are the same people who would applaud the US government if they claimed they needed to curtail free speec/freedom of the press until this whole "terrorist" thing has passed. If only the times were safer to afford such liberties.

// Your driver could be a meth-addled convict with a bottle of jagermeister between his legs, but since he never had to go through a background check or a drug test or even a physical, the hook he uses to steer the car between epileptic bouts of withdrawal is in Ubers understanding a sterling example of a world class taxi service without the hassle of icky cabs.

The bulk of cab drivers I've seen are meth-addled convicts. It hasn't always been Jagermeister tucked in their legs.

We've always been at war with East Anglia.

They actually could survive by selling a better office suite. The fact is the changes made to their software aren't widely regarded as better. They'd sell a better OS if it was genuinely and provably simpler, faster more secure : better. The problem is the licensing the ham fisted lock in attempts and newer closed formats top prevent departing: I am looking at you Sharepoint!

Certainly there are smart people who want MS to win, but they would be deliberately ignoring the concentrated efforts at doing anything to stifle free and open competition. SCO v IBM and the lawsuits and their current mirroring of FUD efforts against Android are primary examples. Attacking open source to promote closed proprietary products is bad for humanity.

My thoughts were fairsearch.org promoting this.

Is it easier or harder to find an OEM to make an iOS device for them? Is it easier or harder for them to reskin and rebrand windows phone 8 under their own name?

You know, in Windows it doesn't matter what I set the default search to in IE, because MS soon changes it back to Bing somehow never having figured out how to retain a setting like that when they do an update to their browser. Also if i want to use google, then select the option use search suggestions in my results, then that search and those results are sent to ms and used to collect data about me and to improve their search results.

My only option is to refuse to use IE until they can learn how not to be hypocritical self searching dishonest douchetards,.

OK... So i can't fear both? What can the Russian Mafia do? Steal my banking info? That is nothing compared to a surveillance state gone mad with power. If you can't see why a government might have more power than the Russian Mafia, then perhaps it's time to rethink what this data collection is and can be used for. They already admitted meta data is enough to issue a kill order, and has been done so.

But you know.. My target card might be in danger.

There have been multiple Android phones released with alternate search providers, both Yahoo and Bing. How many iPhones have been released with alternate/paid search providers? How many Windows phones have been released with an alternate paid search provider? It is trivial to change and the OS is open source. the same apps can and will work if they set up their own application store.

They already have done this. There were Android phones where Verizon was paid to have Bing as the default.

I can only hope that this sort of bullshit maneuver by RSA reflects both globally and in the USA with respect to sales. Name one Government willing to buy this equipment any longer? 10 M compared to what they're going to lose now is nothing.

Not here. Not too many. However the rest of the world buys right in to the fear. I guarantee the enxt time there is some sort of protest or unrest that we will see phones in an area cut and they'll deny being involved.