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Google has a reputation of extinguishing its own projects. So who knows how long their fascination w/ Fuchsia will last.

Users can always revoke their public keys. The same public key does not have to be used continually. Allow users to revoke their keys as often as they like. Heck, force the keys to expire in 1 day if you like! We already expect the sender to be online. The sender can check for key revocation before they send the message. Or let the server send back a error response if the sender used an expired or revoked key to encrypt the message.

Rs 98 / month is for 2 GB of EDGE data per month. That is the normal charge in India for every mobile customer. This is not a special tariff for this tablet.

The problem with FB groups is that both you and the friends that you want to share the link/photo/message with have to agree to be part of that group. I usually put my friends in multiple groups/circles, i.e. they could be a work colleague but also a eating out enthusiast. This multiple categorization can easily get messy and definitely doesn't scale to hundreds of friends.

Hopefully, with Google+ Circles my private categorization of my friends is not shared with them. They should only see what I share.

The teams maybe autonomous in Google but I'm sure that they are aware that they are duplicating functionality and thus really harming the company. What the heck the are product managers and their managers doing at Google? Building their own little empires?

Man-in-the-middle attack are made less likely because the 3DSecure page where the user is asked to enter a password also contains challenge question that was originally added by the user at the time of setting up 3DSecure for his/her account. The user should be able to recognize that this is not the bank's website when the challenge question is not his/her own.