> - We still don't know whether or not the companies on the PRISM slides were participating voluntarily or even knowingly. Sure we do. PRISM has an NSA part an

> - We still don't know whether or not the companies on the PRISM slides were participating voluntarily or even knowingly. Sure we do. PRISM has an NSA part and a company part. The company had to build out their end in order to participate in PRISM. However it's important to realize that compliance in some form with NSLs and warrants was not optional for Apple. By not participating in PRISM they would simply have turned over the same data on each request by manual means. That modality is probably an even bigger threat to user privacy than PRISM. In PRISM, Apple's legal team would have to vet each and every single NSL or warrant and then manually activate an automated process to ship the required data over. While Apple didn't release a ton of details about how they implement it, this automated process is precisely the thing that can be done without a raft of Apple employees having to map/reduce it all manually (and possibly leak part of it themselves, maliciously or accidentally).