Now he tells us

So lemme get this straight -- Mark Zuckerberg, the guy who runs freaking Facebook is concerned about gubmint spying and privacy? Well, yeah:

Facebook has said that in response the NSA’s practices it’s expedited plans to better encrypt communications between its data centers and to implement perfect forward secrecy, an cryptographic technique that greatly limits the data an eavesdropper can access even if he or she manages to break a service’s encryption.

“We work together to create this secure environment and make our shared space even better for the world,” Zuckerberg’s statement reads. “This is why I’ve been so confused and frustrated by the repeated reports of the behavior of the US government. When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we’re protecting you against criminals, not our own government.”

Two observations:

• Frog, meet scorpion; and
• Increasingly, the distinction between criminals and government is a distinction without a difference.