Terrorists and GMail Link

Michael Hayden, the former NSA and CIA director, quoted in the Washington Post:

Gmail is the preferred Internet service provider of terrorists worldwide,

And later:

We built it here, and it was quintessentially American," he said, adding that partially due to that, much of traffic goes through American servers where the government “takes a picture of it for intelligence purposes.”

This is damning on so many levels. I also don’t recall them opening everyone’s mail and taking a picture before email. Ignorance, deception and power always seem to march together.¹

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1. I particularly liked his reference to Rome. That gave me some hope that this current political environment is also in decline. ↩︎