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"Mr. <webservice-ceo> Does your company offer a backdoor for the government? It looks like it, even though you have declared that there was no backdoor just a few weeks ago!" - "Uhm. Not wittingly!"



That's like accusing AT&T of having a backdoor because your apartment has thin walls and someone could overhear. Or that your ISP has a backdoor because your WiFi isn't encrypted.

The FBI was doing this decades ago with Carnivore. Why is it at all surprising that such a program continues to collect unencrypted information you sent over the Internet?


access.

any citizen can go out and listen to public conversations, but we are not all invited to put our e-stethoscopes up to the internet backbone.




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