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The NSA Is Commandeering The Internet -- Bruce Schneier, The Atlantic
Technology companies have to fight for their users, or they'll eventually lose them.
It turns out that the NSA's domestic and world-wide surveillance apparatus is even more extensive than we thought. Bluntly: The government has commandeered the Internet. Most of the largest Internet companies provide information to the NSA, betraying their users. Some, as we've learned, fight and lose. Others cooperate, either out of patriotism or because they believe it's easier that way.
I have one message to the executives of those companies: fight.
Do you remember those old spy movies, when the higher ups in government decide that the mission is more important than the spy's life? It's going to be the same way with you. You might think that your friendly relationship with the government means that they're going to protect you, but they won't. The NSA doesn't care about you or your customers, and will burn you the moment it's convenient to do so.
Read more ....
Update #1: NSA: We read .00004% of Web traffic -- CNN
Update #2: NSA hunger demands 29 petabytes of data a day -- ZDNet
My Comment: I concur with the above assessment that if U.S. technology companies do not fight for their consumers .... they are going to lose them to foreign competitors .... especially among the young. My prediction .... they will not.
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