I read a few interesting articles (from major news sources -- not some iffy blogs) about Yahoo!'s and Google's fibre intranet LAN and WAN loops between datacenters, international connections, being siphoned up (ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO USA) in the NSA BIG BIG database -- how they will sort through all that shit who knows ). So, if you wonder why Google changed their connections to HTTPS sockets, with all the corresponding overhead involved in the encryption of that data -- want to venture a guess as to the reason they spent all of that money and effort? If this is not blowback what the hell is? My country right or wrong. This may be all for the best in the end anyway.