Juxtapositions

CNN.com: "Federal judge says he will require Google to turn over some data to Department of Justice."

Amazon.com: "Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web."

A distributed, encrypted backup would get a lot of traction right now. Something like like duplicity or boxbackup but baked into the Operating System at the filesystem level. Sure, it's hard, but having no control over what the government does with your email, pictures and movies is even harder.