First look up the Guardian's coverage of GCHQ. Stones, glass houses, etc.
It still has nothing to do with wanting the subject to "go away", it's that your post is completely irrelevant to an open source programming environment for the Raspberry Pi. That's why I downvoted your comment. It adds absolutely nothing to a conversation on the subject at hand, and is generic enough that a decent bot could generate your top-level comment on any subject with Google in the submission title. Seriously, you're like one step away from those blog comments that try to stay on topic while "subtly" working in a link to their discount counterfeit purses or whatever. Mindless knee-jerkery is not something I want to see encouraged, so I'm happy to help downvote it to oblivion.
Well, go and look at the Wikipedia entry for PRISM and follow the leads to the UK coverage, anything to do with GCHQ is gag ordered. Nobody is talking about this fact, yet we should all do a kumbayah around the fire because Google have released a FOSS product "for the children". This stinks of PR. As I say, I have faith that those on the ground at Google have nothing but good intentions and want to change the world for the better, but we now live in a world where you cannot trust them. This is exactly the same as if Nestle released an open source solution for breast feeding, nothing but a PR repair strategy. I hate to be the one saying this by the way, because I have for years loved Google and put almost everything in their cloud solution.
Edit: Oh and I have exactly zero to gain from trolling Google, I am not promoting Skydrive or Spideroak because they are both equally dubious, why does my reaction to a company deeply tied into the recent revelations about all out data being processed by the US gov have to be considered non-relevant?
Edit edit: I believe I am contributing to this story because my comment is about the company involved in creating it and the relationship of trust they have (in the sphere of computer geeks and Hacker News this is particularly poignant). If you believe things should only be 100% related to the article, to never deviate and discuss things such as the the company, fair enough to downvote me.
By the way read this specifically the DA-Notice, UK has been gag ordered so the Guardian is nothing but a distraction at this point as they are complying with the notice. Sure, they have revealed some interesting stuff but they cannot also be completely trusted as they are compromised.
It still has nothing to do with wanting the subject to "go away", it's that your post is completely irrelevant to an open source programming environment for the Raspberry Pi. That's why I downvoted your comment. It adds absolutely nothing to a conversation on the subject at hand, and is generic enough that a decent bot could generate your top-level comment on any subject with Google in the submission title. Seriously, you're like one step away from those blog comments that try to stay on topic while "subtly" working in a link to their discount counterfeit purses or whatever. Mindless knee-jerkery is not something I want to see encouraged, so I'm happy to help downvote it to oblivion.