Looks like a couple of e-mail providers quit due to pressure from the NSA.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/lavabit-encrypted-email-service-shuts-down-cant-say-why
But we can trust the spooks and the administration when they say that there won't be any negative fallout from the gag orders.
I feel safer already, don't you.
I hope your business is not next...
Wow, another day, and more lay-offs:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/09/us-usa-security-nsa-leaks-idUSBRE97801020130809
If you can't trust 'em, fire 'em.
Sucks to be a sysadmin at the NSA, but then again, the NSA sucks.
And now the suck gets handed down to employees as there will be "code" to replace the 90% of the sysadmins.
Yep, good luck with that. It has never been tried and failed.
Glad to see something will slow down the NSA, but I did not guess it would be themselves :-)
The day would not be complete without more job losses from the NSA snooping:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/09/net-us-germany-spying-telekom-idUSBRE9780L020130809
I suppose they say that the datacenters that Deutsche Telekom ran in the U.S. did not employ any U.S. employees?
Dropping like flies folks. Not quite a hurricane Sandy, but it might have a longer term effect.