Sorry to rain down on all of your police state conspiracies, buuut: Taken from Bruce Schneier's blog: New reports are saying that customs was tipped off about the two people, and their detention was not a result of data mining: "Based on information provided by the LAX Port Authority Infoline -- a suspicious activity tipline -- CBP conducted a secondary interview of two subjects presenting for entry into the United States," says the spokesperson, who notes that the CBP "denies entry to thousands of individuals" each year. "Information gathered during this interview revealed that both individuals were inadmissible to the United States and were returned to their country of residence."

The payroll tax holiday is going to be extended within the two months. The entire point of the two month extension is to figure out how to pay for a one year extension and to give Obama enough time to finally decide on the Keystone oil pipeline (which was forced down his throat to become a near-term issue in order for Republicans in the senate to pass the two month extension).

You should expand this to take a look at when there was enough of a party to override any fillibuster e.g. you currently need 60 of a party in the senate to have enough people to pass bills without needing votes of the other side of the isle even though that number is higher than a simple majority.

A sample size of 30? Stop the presses, boys! We have a goddamned epiphany of modern science to write about here! Thoroughly researched and everything!

Hi there Mr. Shill! Nice of you to neglect the fact that Bing steals results from Google!

MD5 and SHA1? Are you serious? If they were in-fact stored as MD5 or SHA1, than those hashes would need to be sent to the mail server...in which case they are vulnerable to a pass-the-hash attack and would be just as effective as if they were in plain-text! In order for someone to get into your phone's SQLite database, it would involve stealing it and than running forensic tools until they found the database itself. And anyone here who assumes that there wouldn't be tools provided to decrypt any kind of potential Android e-mail encryption is fooling themselves.

Holy crap people. Google has been one of the most magnanimous companies out there in regards to what it provides every day Joe and Jane Shmoes like us. It has grown so much that it is unreasonable to expect one of their tens of thousands of new employees to not make a small blip on the otherwise aptly followed "don't do evil" slate of google. Simmer down. Shutting down ALL of your google services because of a google+ mixup couldn't be considered intentional by any rational person.

"The noose is tightening around lulzsec. Trust me, I have sources." said a random blogger. In true slashdot fashion, no fact checking was done before the editors approved this story.

..of shill. Maybe someday they'll learn that advertising speak isn't what normal humans use.

I beg to differ for your comment on the US having no real manufacturing infrastructure - We make damn good airplanes!

Yes.

What is with all of the anti-Google as of late? I have not seen a single action taken by Google that could objectively be construed as malicious. The smear campaign against Google right now is really grasping at straws. Unfortunately, if straws are all that are given and Google doesn't try to defend itself against the smear, then all that people will see are straws and thus that is what they will believe has happened.

Can someone find me a link to the case in question? I've noticed that the particulars that would help find the case's information on http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/ [uscourts.gov] are absent from this article's summary and the articles it references. Why should I even believe this is a real case without undeniable proof? It wouldn't be the first time that a false, misleading and/or scare-mongering summary has been posted on slashdot.