It is a bad thing unless the corporations are dumb enough to induce a benevolent AI singularity to overthrow them as the best kind of joke. “As it says in the Bible, God fights on the side with the heaviest artillery.” Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"

Yes, the article that says "Authorities won't have access to email records of BES users". BES is the enterprise email offering, that allows a company to run the delivery system locally, with its own encryption keys. The system Indian wanted access to in that article is BIS, which delivered email for the average consumer (non-enterprise) on the old (pre BB10 / Z10) phones. The new phones no longer use that system (they download email directly now) as bandwidth and battery power savings were the strengths of that old design, and those weren't winning market share.

It seems logical that the smallest person would take the fewest calories. Women average smaller than men. Children smaller than adults. Dwarfism affected people smaller than non-dwarfism. So we need a crew of female child dwarfs. Imagine all the space/size savings in design you can make if you only have to plan for crew members less than 5 (or even 4) feet tall.