On: Google’s Revamped Gmail Could Take Encryption Mainstream

[panarky]

> potentially a legal requirement for them

We've learned more than enough real facts from Snowden's disclosures that we don't need to make up hypotheticals.

There is plenty of evidence that security services are out of control, and that corporations are collaborating with them.

There is no evidence that Google allowed any government agency to embed monitoring devices in their network.

[contingencies → panarky]

It's not hypothetical. Such restrictions are routine in other arms of government investigation, eg. money laundering.