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Out of interest, if Yahoo had continued on this path who would the USG put in prison for the noncompliance? The CEO? If so, the FISA ruling isn't that secret an
by junto 12y ago
Out of interest, if Yahoo had continued on this path who would the USG put in prison for the noncompliance? The CEO? If so, the FISA ruling isn't that secret anymore, if the CEO of a global firm gets put in prison. Would have been fascinating to see a CEO play that out. Suicidal, but interesting nevertheless.
Notably:
June 18, 2007: Yahoo! co-founder Jerry
Yang replaces Terry Semel as CEO.
Assuming this process started whilst Semel was still onboard, Yang took over the reins and continued the fight.
- Vivtek 12y agoThe CEO of a global firm did get put in prison in the telecommunications version of this sordid story - Joseph Nacchio of Qwest (a phone company that was driven into bankruptcy for refusing to play the NSA's game). All the Serious People just agreed that this was entirely normal and OK. (See http://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-and-the-nsa-2013-6 http://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-a... for details if you haven't already heard about it. The "illegal stock trading" was selling shares in his own company while knowing about classified business with the NSA itself - which they deemed insider trading after they had a reason to punish him.)