Off topic: Verizon, FICA, FISA, PRISM, et al.

Right or Left, if you have been following the news the last few days regarding the Obama administration's abuse of power violating the privacy of US Citizens at large, you should be angry as hell.

According to a top-secret document obtained by The Washington Post, The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets.  The companies allegedly in cahoots with feds are Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, PalTalk, Youtube, Skype, AOL (are they really still around?), and Apple.  Dropbox, the cloud storage service, is described as “coming soon.”