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If it's not client-side encryption (where only you know the password and the stuff is encrypted on your machine before it is sent), then it's a non-starter. The government can just order Google to bypass the protections for their suspect.

Using Bazqux.com. It's the closest to Google Reader that I've found and it's fast. Inoreader.com is also not bad.

I can't take this distribution seriously until they support encrypted root in the installer.

Yeah, I have a sudden mistrust of anything Google creates after they fked us with Reader.

OMG, thanks. Finally a reader as fast as Google reader.

I wish Dropbox would come out with client-side encryption. They have had a couple of serious breaches and I frankly don't trust them with anything important.

(Edit): I am aware there are methods to do it yourself - they are all too cumbersome. I want something simple and built into the client.

I used spideroak for a year (paid) and slowly grew to hate the client. Everthing else about the service was great and I had a large amount of trust in the company, but the client was extremely slow and unpredictable.

I wish Dropbox and SpiderOak would mate and have a child product that was as smooth, fast and easy to use as Dropbox, but with full SpiderOak grade client side encryption.

Oracle is the last company I would trust after opensolaris, etc.

I find myself returning again and again to Opera - I like chrome and chromium, but I live and die by bookmarks and they don't work well in google's browsers.

It seems like Googles engineers have a very short attention span and can't be bothered to go back and fix fundamental problems which have existed for 2 years now.

Won't most of the stolen phones be sent out of the country where they will be unaffected by this arrangement?

I'm afraid most of what the government does is theater - meant to distract us while they line their own pockets.

Whenever I buy a book from Amazon, the first thing I do immediately after the purchase is strip the DRM and store a copy of the unprotected .mobi file. I'm concerned about Amazon's new announced ebook format that I'll lose the ability to do this. If and when that happens, I won't purchase anymore books from them.

I used Chrome for over a year and just recently went back to Opera. I have open bug reports for various bookmark problems in Chrome that have been ignored by the Chrome developers for several versions now. The chrome bookmarks code (and syncing) just needs to be thrown out and rewritten. It's a steaming pile of dung. I've even tried deleting them wholesale and letting chrome resync the whole bunch - it will only sync 100 per day as some sort of throttling mechanism, so it took a month for all of them to synchronize.

I do run into an occasional problem with Opera, for example, in Google docs, you can't upload a document. But for me, bookmarks are very important (I have over 5 thousand of them) and chrome can't handle them correctly.

Not true - you can generate a new address for each transaction without affecting your "wallet".

Jeez, did anyone read the article? It said that bitorrent users commonly only use TOR to access the trackers, then use a NON-TOR connection to the peer.

The researchers then recorded the user's IP address from the non-TOR traffic. Nothing magically going on here.

I would have liked to see this go to trial and set a precedent. That's probably why Sony settled - it saw that the opinions were running against them.

Consumer rights have been taking a beating lately.

How long before we see a completely free Kindle?