These leaks have cost America the trust of an entire generation. In the last few months I deleted my gmail, linkedin, facebook, twitter, ebay and amazon accounts, and when my cellphone dies I won't buy another. If US companies deny their customers the basic human right that is dignity through privacy then it will be to their extreme financial loss. Personally I want no part of what these services have to offer because they do not respect me as a individual. I don't trust the hardware, the software, the services, the network, the companies or the government. And google can stick glass up their ass.

http://slashdot.org/story/13/04/04/1825231/want-to-keep-messages-from-the-feds-use-imessage These guys called it http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130405/01485922590/dea-accused-leaking-misleading-info-falsely-implying-that-it-cant-read-apple-imessages.shtml So leaked documents are being used for disinformation. Hmm... http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/oct/04/tor-stinks-nsa-presentation-document

The NSA keep trying the same old trick. They want to orchestrate mass adoption of a system that appears secure but isn't. Somewhere in the technology stack there's a backdoor allowing the NSA access to the plaintext. We know what the NSA's two agendas are and its a huge conflict of interests for them to release a encryption system that they cannot themselves break. Even if the code appears secure they have rigged modern hardware to leak keys through side channels. _Of course_ Google's new system will be backdoored and _of course_ Google will be gagged. Google can never be trusted again. No matter what they say. The NSA are behind this. They are trying to provide a solution through Google because they fear people will move to develop a variety of encryption algorithms and products which will be expensive to analyze and break and automate surveillance of. Obscurity != Security but its fucking expensive.

The damage to their business is irreversible. Google sold out their users rights to privacy and didn't whisper a word about it until they got exposed. And then they lied and got caught again.