>They had a special opportunity to take a lead role in protecting the American public from being victimized by criminal behavior within the NSA and they chose to side with the criminals instead of the victims.
By safeguarding against Smurf Suite. And by blowing the whistle every time gangsters show up and want to use a baseband chip to abuse people.
They had an opportunity in June 2013 to say, "we're aware of the former intelligence chief James Clapper's acknowledgement that his March 2013 testimony to the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was erroneous ; we are taking every action possible to thwart efforts by the NSA to collect information about our users as described in his recent letter and as disclosed last month by Edward Snowden."
At a time when many people (including some members of Congress) were hoping that Clapper was going to be prosecuted for perjury and the entire regime of illegal spying was going to be provable undone, Qualcomm, a potentially huge contributor to safety of the public, did and said nearly nothing.
And where is that from?