[Tezro]

> But in the long term I think the trust can be restored, if majority of people can actually give a shit about these revelations.

The problem is, that right now US based cloud services loose customers to other competitors which are not hampered by ridiculous US laws. Since cloud services are all about customer lock in, it does not matter if trust can be restored at a later time(which I personally doubt). They have lost the customer to a competitor - most likely forever.

[dombili]

I was actually talking about the trust between governments and their citizens. But since you brought it up...

> The problem is, that right now US based cloud services loose customers to other competitors which are not hampered by ridiculous US laws.

I don't think that's the case. Is there even a cloud service that's out of NSA's reach that's become prominent after these revelations? People on HN mentioned some services, but general public still use Dropbox, Google Drive, Skydrive as if nothing's happened.