As far as I can tell, uTox is written in C and uses XLib (on GNU/Linux, at least).

What's evil about finding out which ports are being attacked and by who?

This is just speculation, but maybe it's a reference to the fact that the company is funded (in part) by Google.

I have been looking forward to this.

Of course there are a lot of features missing, but the overall feel of the application is, so far, pretty nice. It's U.I is very nice. Man, I can't wait for the final release.

Glad ya like what we are doing, thanks :)

I support his dicision. I just wish there was some warning so I could have prepared for losing all of my contact information, etc. This couldn't have happened at a worse time as my backup server took a rather ultimate farewell yesterday.

I really don't want to use gmail or hotmail, so what other service can I use? Ugh. It might be time to get back to the roots and invest more time and effort in decentralized services instead of relying on centralized services.

They way things are nowadays, I just don't know the answer to that anymore...

Wasn't Obama a Constitutional Lawyer? You'd think he'd know better.

The operative word in that sentence is lawyer.

Microsoft willingly developed backdoors into their systems for the NSA. They were actively developing ways to help the NSA.

Google, Apple, Yahoo, Facebook, etc. have lost trust because of this whole spying thing. To say that these companies were somehow "victims" is troubling to me. As far as I can tell the Constitution of the U.S.A is the law. Anything introduced to purposely subvert the constitution is illegal and should be challenged.

With companies like Google who have a lot of weight (money) to just hand over anything private to the NSA without actually calling them on it, is disturbing. These NSA programs have been going on for a very long time; collecting everyone's (american AND their allies) private communications. I'm sorry, but victim? No way. Instead of keeping to the "cloud" mentality there could have been more work on protecting users with proper encryption techniques. No body has done this. Yes, Yahoo may have lost in secret, but they also didn't fight the NSA's spying by creating technologies or build upon current technologies to protect their users.

I trusted Google to keep my gmail/youtube/etc. information private for me and those whom I talk to. Advertisements bothered me, yes, so I stopped communicating about confidential things to do with business, etc. I have been a Google user since a week after gmail was introduced.

I have deleted all my connections to Google thanks to these revelations.

In order for Google, Facebook or Microsoft to gain my trust again, there needs to be innovation in the encryption world where I can seamlessly encrypt ON THE CLIENT and decrypt ON THE CLIENT machine with out storing anything to do with the private keys on the cloud or trust Google with the private keys. Would this ever happen? Probably not. Google is an Ad company. Privacy isn't exactly their biggest strong point. Same goes for the others.

When there are laws that attempt to force people to do things they do not wish to do you get a push back - you get something like Bitcoin or Tor or I2P, etc. Law is always a step behind.

What you see right now is Law trying to play catch up. However, it seems quite obvious that the people involved in creating Laws don't quite know exactly what Bitcoin is fully. We'll see a bunch of really dumb bills being introduced in retaliation then, like always, they will adapt slowly and find a way to take control.

Bitcoin isn't exempt, you're right. Though, Bitcoin can be changed or something new will come out.

I don't see where this is a new rule. This is the exact same thing the DEA has done with large quantities of money or bank accounts.

The US Government's response so far has been pretty good, actually. They're not making new rules for bitcoin. They're making it explicitly known that they're treating BTC like all other forms of money.

If people store their coins on a central server it can happen like any other data.

Bitcoin, however, can be used without the use of a third party storing your coins.

Plus U.S law enforcement having the ability (under Canadian officers guidance) to arrest Canadian citizens on Canadian soil.

I also remember the Harper government opening up sharing Canadian citizen's personal information with the U.S border.

Canada's government right now is all about bowing down to the U.S.

If I'm not mistaken, I think, at least in Ontario, there is a massive amount of dark fiber just laying around not being used.

Dark fiber tends not to be running to homes. The costly part is connecting a cable to each building. Equipment isn't cheap either, but that will probably change over time (and/or same cost expensive equipment will become more capable).