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Comment by spankalee | Hacker News Reader

Because the headline might be misleading by leaving this out, it's not just Zuckerberg and Nadella.

The full list:

  Tim Armstrong, AOL
  Tim Cook, Apple
  Drew Houston, Dropbox
  Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
  Larry Page, Google
  Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn
  Dick Costolo, Twitter
  Satya Nadella, Microsoft
  Marissa Mayer, Yahoo!

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>Drew Houston, Dropbox

Oh that's precious. They could go a long way to curbing NSA spying themselves by not appointing one of the most prolific apologists for warrantless wiretapping, to their fucking board of fucking directors.

Then they can sign off on this.

Dropbox, who appointed Condoleezza Rice to their board, asked the US government to restrain their spying?

Yeah, I found it a bit odd the specific selections of both CEOs and companies named - especially given that the CEOs in the headline, the named companies in the article, and the named CEOs in the article are all different sets.

Almost identical to the list of PRISM companies.

I don't think that's a coincidence -- they didn't want to participate, and now that it's out there, it's hurting their bottom line.

I don't think these companies even know they were helping it.

Of course the companies knew about PRISM (though not under that name); they had to implement services for it. Other NSA more pervasive initiatives, like tapping into fiber, were not known.

"A lawyer representing the National Security Agency at a Wednesday hearing revealed tech companies were fully aware of the agency’s widespread Internet surveillance programs, contradicting outraged statements that have echoed across Silicon Valley since Edward Snowden’s first leaks came to light."

http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/20/nsa-reveals-silicon-valley...

It's funny to see sites highlight specific CEOs. It seems to say something about their viewpoint or possibly their target demographic.

Thanks for pointing that out; changed title to be less misleading.

All companies that engage in highly sophisticated data mining.

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