moar linkspam (minimal, this time)

And people wonder why I'm interested in Faraday Cage purses and wallets.

More ruminations on Google's new "privacy" policy... I may be mis-remembering, but it seems to me that Google's been happy to roll over at a suggestion from Big Government, without the prod of anything so pointy as court orders; this sort of data aggregation just means that Uncle Sam doesn't have to be bothered with spying on us, and somebody else gets to profit from the process. Not happy about that.