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Google is the industry's most active and effective corporate advocate for TLS simply because it makes tracking users and selling targeted advertising a whole lot easier. Their involvement in the whole PRISM affair has undoubtedly demonstrated that privacy is none of their concern.

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I wish I could somehow CAPTCHA comments like these so I could tell if they were people or Markov generators.

Years ago, in days of old, when magic filled the air, I wrote a Slashdot troll post generator. It eventually produced some pretty hilarious posts, but I never closed the loop by allowing it to post. It would make a fun project for learning a new language; perhaps I'll install Dart and give it a shot.

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