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As a result of recent (Snowden, etc.) security revelations, I am:

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Making no changes at all to what I do online (Score: 3, Insightful)

by koen@pipedot.org on 2014-06-16 10:19 (#23Z)

(1) The Snowden revelations informed the public at large what is going on. We (formers readers of /. and I suppose current readers of |. as well) knew already in general what was going on, Snowden merely confirmed what we knew and provided more details.

(2) If we start to self-censor, they win.

Re: Making no changes at all to what I do online (Score: 1, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-19 06:24 (#263)

Actually a lot of companies used to use US based cloud services. I know a lot of companies that pull back to in-house solutions or at least cloud services based in their own country. Pre Snowden everyone speculated if your data is secure in the cloud, now you know it is used for industrial espionage on a massive scale. We don't trust anything US anymore.

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2014-06-19 13:41 Informative +1 harmless@pipedot.org

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