Did you see the way you jumped from "I point something out to you" to "you insult me" without passing through anything like justification? Or how "here's why people are mad at Google" from me becomes "why aren't you in a spiderhole in Montana crafting your manifesto?"

Lazy. And sloppy. And uncompelling. go ahead and be pissed off, but recognize it's got fuckall to do with me.

For the record, it's not like my thoughts on the matter have been particularly guarded. And, for the record, I've demonstrated I know more about this stuff than most people. So the answers to "why aren't you in a spiderhole" are

a) I've been aware of the problem for 20 years

b) I've been cognizant of the problem for 20 years

c) I understand OPSEC

d) I understand that at the level of malfeasance I dwell, it's easier to make shit up about me than mine my statements for shit to condemn me.

In other words, I have a realistic view of the problem. Which is why this whole Snowden thing has been, for me, an extremely hipsterish event ("I hated Google before it was cool"). They've been logging EVERYTHING since before you were born, sport-o, and I've been taking that into account since universities used SSNs for student IDs. So no - I don't need to "trash my cellphone." I knew PRISM was Total Information Awareness back when they re-hired John Poindexter.

But bringing this back to your question (and my answer), "that whole snowden thing" revealed that Google wasn't this ivory tower of "don't be evil" like they've been professing all along. Yeah, they were hardly alone, but everyone already hates Microsoft. Everyone already hates Facebook. And most people already hate Apple.

So.

"You missed that whole Snowden thing, didn't you?"

'cuz if you hadn't made that connection, you sure didn't have a lot of reason for shitting down my neck for pointing it out.

TL;DR - fuck off.