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> After their name showed up on that slide in the Prism leak without their cooperation (meaning they had been stepped around by the FBI. Some of the earlier companies had willingly volunteered data)

I know it's a bit off topic but I'm really curious about this - do you have a source that shows which companies willingly volunteered data and which were stepped around? I wasn't aware that anything like that had come out.

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> I wasn't aware that anything like that had come out.

You're not aware of nothing like that ever come out. The guy just made it up (or it's just his wishful thinking). We still don't know which companies cooperated with the NSA.

We do know that Google didn't intend for its traffic between data centers to be scooped up - and that has been fixed in the meantime - but that doesn't prove that Google didn't cooperate in other matters.

Same with Apple. For all we know, they are all gagged due to NSLs.

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