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Didn’t Snowden reveal otherwise? That if the government really wanted the information, the could just send a National Security Letter using Secret Courts. Are
by tthhuyid 7y ago
Didn’t Snowden reveal otherwise?
That if the government really wanted the information, the could just send a National Security Letter using Secret Courts.
Aren’t the fates of Lavabit and MCI demonstrations of that power?
- Lendal 7y agoSnowden didn't know everything then, and he knows even less now. Also, asking a company for data or even stealing the data through subterfuge doesn't make you an owner of that company.
- DiogenesKynikos 7y agoYet that's essentially what people are claiming with Huawei, even right here in this thread. Huawei is not a state-owned enterprise, yet people are saying that operating in China, being subject to pressure from the Chinese government, makes it essentially state-owned. Yet we know from Snowden that basically all the large American tech companies were secretly providing access to the NSA or had been pwned by the NSA. So far, there's no evidence that Huawei has spied on its customers, or that their products contain backdoors.