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This guy has the balls. Kudos, Mr Bonneau.

I'm curious if he will get a private reprimand from Google execs for unpleasant commentary on their partner :)

I honestly don't understand people's opinion around this. I'm not trying to refute your comment, just understand and see if I missed something. As far as I have read, Google complies with NSA letters (which seems to be required by law, although perhaps not a favorable one) and PRISM is said to give the NSA additional direct access (but I haven't seen any indication of this being proved or confirmed to be known to the companies involved). Has there been some information proving Google and other companies are actually working with the NSA or is it simply based on the idea that you think it might be likely and they'd deny it either way (if they confirm it, they work with the NSA and if they deny it, they work with the NSA).

I'm not suggesting blindly trusting any company or person but do we have actual knowledge in this subject I missed or simply opinions?

I think he's being cute. For me this quote sums up what PRISM is really about:

"Nobody wants a box in their network...[Companies often] find ways to give tools to minimize disclosures, to protect users, to keep the government off the premises, and to come to some reasonable compromise on the capabilities."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57593538-38/how-the-u.s-fo...

Basically: in order to prevent the feds from installing boxes on their networks companies offer to do their own interception, which in my opinion is the far better alternative. "Direct access" isn't accurate.

On this matter I posted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6078124

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