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Google providing direct access to their servers and infrastructure. Every Google service was open to the NSA; GMail, Google Drive, Google Talk, you name it.
by xcnm3 13y ago
Google providing direct access to their servers and infrastructure. Every Google service was open to the NSA; GMail, Google Drive, Google Talk, you name it.
- cromwellian 13y agoAnd the evidence for this is?
- xcnm3 13y agoPlease read the leaked information from Edward Snowden. I don't wish to paraprase the last few weeks of news for someone.
- cromwellian 13y agoIt's a rhetorical question. None of the leaks provide any evidence that Google actively cooperates with the NSA in any way. No evidence of equipment at Google data centers, no evidence of any kind of remote access for the NSA, other than the already existing legal channels. The claim that Google had foreknowledge of PRISM, or worked with the NSA to build some kind of firehose for them is unsupportable given what we know, and is pure speculation on your part. Thus, the claim of close cooperation with the NSA is frankly, ad hominem.
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- xcnm3 13y agoIt's considered impolite to be deliberately obtuse. I won't waste my time responding further, I strongly suspect you're a Google employee or other employee of the US government.
- bitwize 13y agoAbsence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Given what's come out about the NSA, it's much more plausible to assume that Google is cooperating with them.
- mtgx 13y agoFYI, Microsoft joined PRISM first: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-collection-documents/images/prism-slide-5.jpg http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...
- uxp 13y agoIf we really want to get into the FYIs here, PRISM is not some network intrusion tool designed to siphon data away form large companies, it's just a stupid database where governmental agencies can throw their data obtained by either NSA letters, or a standard bench warrant. Much like IAFIS is a standard database operated by the FBI.