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jafaku

> Apple, Microsoft and Google have all willingly turned over data to the feds

More like gave direct access to their backends. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StlFKE_UVI4

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One person's paraphrase of a general system is not evidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY

https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9909.html#NSAKeyinMicro...

Let's be honest, Why would NSA force MS to add a key like that, in such a way?

Up until 2000, export control regulations made it illegal for a U.S company to release cryptographic tools internationally with a key size greater than 40 bits. Lotus Notes got around this by making a deal with the NSA to let them encrypt an additional 24 bits with an NSA key to allow greater security from everyone else but let the NSA still access things easily. At least some have speculated the Windows NSAKEY was for a similar purpose.

A claim that has been explicitly denied by the companies in question. As serious as Snowden's leaks are, he has repeatedly made exaggerated claims regarding them, and I wish he would stop.

How do you know these claims are exaggerated?

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