I have never been a fan of closed-source expensive white plastic and brushed aluminium.
And I say this as the first dealer to sell PowerPCs in Scotland back in the early 90s.
I was a fan then, the markup was eye-watering 
Other larger more established companies soon noticed and my exclusive status only lasted a couple of months. Good while it lasted though…
Can we assume the same for google storage?
I’ve always assumed that for anything Google.
It wouldn’t be any fun, because you’d never know if you were doomed or not doomed (as you are stuck in a state of quantum superposition), until you turn off the game.
This is really disappointing. I hope that Apple users are paying attention and begin a boycott.
Presumably google allows the govnt access to users cloud storage already? If not why aren’t they in the news too? What about other phone manufacturers with their own backup/cloud facilities which are growing now that google has been forced to allow phone manufacturers to install their own competing services. Interesting and worrying times.
I am so excited that I will post this here, because today I got the api to work. 
Excuse my crappy video though, upload and retrieved via the python api.
Small step for mankind… huge step for Josh!! 
Soon also a huge step for Autonomi. 
Every cloud operator that has physical presence in the US is obligated to give the united states government unlimited and unchecked access to every system worldwide.
Well, that might be a bit difficult for node runners, if they are counted in…
Nah this is for the microsofts, googles aaaaaand hetzners, since they also have physical presence in the US.
This is amazing! Good work!
Today is Airdrop Day^
Some of us will have done OK out of this so here is a begging letter I posted on Discord
Today is Airdrop Day Discord
If you were lucky and did well out of this then please consider knocking the last 2 digits off you ANT payment and sending them to to the faucet Community faucet (testing) at Arb address
0x270A246bcdD03A4A70dc81C330586882a6ceDF8fAnd if you are really flush, how about chucking in a little ETH to keep it all running?
^- as well as National Sticky Bun Day for the USAnians and members of the Church of Sticky Buns of which I am an ordained Deacon. Let us Pray…
faucets balances are not looking to shabby looks like a few donors have risen to the occasion
What’s the oooooh button for?
Motivation 
Can’t have a button that does nothing.
I must say that getting my head out of the node running rabbit hole has been a breath of fresh air.
I can tell you that they do. And Apple and all the other big ones. now that doesn’t mean that the data can be decrypted. Apple claimed (previously) it could not.
I get this info from a person (now retired) who was helping Google (a long time ago) both understand the reason and what has to be done to allow the authorities access. They were (loosely) employed by microsoft in the area of protection (child) and protocols for allow access to storage systems by the authorities. I had quite a few long discussions around this and learnt quite a bit about this area. I mentioned this in some posts around the time the foundation was being setup.
Yep and I got to talk to one of the people who was “loaned” to companies a long time ago to help with the implementation of these systems. Google was dragged into this kicking and screaming at the time, when they were a different breed of operation.
There is no such thing as “no politics” in an issue - everything is political to a lesser or greater extent . .
