Yahoo Webcam Images From Millions of Users Intercepted by GCHQ

09 Mar 2014 • daringfireball.net

Gruber:

There’s no other way to describe this than Orwellian. Government agencies spying on and collecting images of innocent citizens. Outrageous.

For a long time even wanna-be-geeks have known that most email is not secure or private (being transmitted plain-text and all).  It's time we started to intrinsically know that about any and every non-encrypted service we access online.

If it's not encrypted assume it's pretty much public and that everyone is watching (or could be).

I agree with Gruber on how outrageous this is but as it becomes easier and easier to store and aggregate large amounts of data it shouldn't surprise anyone that governments are doing this.