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The NSA can do way more than just sniffing some network links, please don't call that "completely owned." According to the Snowden leaks, the NSA has done more
by linkregister 10y ago
The NSA can do way more than just sniffing some network links, please don't call that "completely owned."
According to the Snowden leaks, the NSA has done more comprehensive infiltrations, e.g. Belgacom, Petrobras, etc.
- rl3 10y agoSorry, but mass collection on inter-datacenter links operated by one of the largest technology companies on the planet should qualify as "completely owned", at least in spirit. If you insist on using the technical definition, then I'd argue it's very possible that Google could be completely owned after all, in every sense of the term. What Snowden leaked was essentially a glorified TS PowerPoint repository. Crown jewels such as partner company names didn't even make it into that level of access, and for good reason. If the NSA happened to be installing persistent implants on target systems belonging to Google's senior leadership, it'd be so compartmented you'd never hear about it. In other words, we probably wouldn't know if Google was completely owned.