Brad Barrish

“If you really want to protect your e-mails from prying eyes, use OpenPGP or S/MIME on your own desktop and don’t let a third-party provider have your data,” he told Ars. “No one of the ‘E-Mail made in Germany’ initiative would say if they encrypt the data on their servers so they don’t have access to it, which they probably don’t and thus the government could force them to let them access it.”

If Silicon Valley can coördinate its dissent, they stand a chance of moving the policy needle. For the government, meta-secrecy has the added benefit of deflecting the legitimacy that big business would bring to critics of the surveillance state; the few known public dissenters are painted as a rogue’s gallery of hackers, leakers, spies, and traitors

benguild:

In order to drum up some reviews for this quick App I built called “Twitter Cleaner“ (called "Followed User Cleaner (for Twitter)” for trademark reasons), I’ve made it free until August 31st, 2013!

Giving this a whirl. So far I have unfollowed over 30 people. Lots of inactive accounts.

Loving the new Instapaper web app and can’t wait to use the new iOS apps.