Comment by hindsightbias
12 years ago
> Google had no knowledge
Citation required.
> Not only that, but Google launched a high-profile effort to encrypt the communications inside and between their data centers.
When exactly was that announced? Before or after Snowden went rogue? If after, the agency had to tell the PRISM partners that they were going to be exposed if they were willing participants in hosting a back-door.
Otherwise, they only got paranoid after that fact?
I'm wondering if there is a state with a particularly restrictive privacy law that can drag Larry or Sergei to the witness stand and find out if participation is willing or unwilling.
Technically, it's impossible to prove a negative. That said, what more evidence do you want than everything Google has done to combat this, including preemptively working to encrypt cross-dc traffic?
including preemptively working to encrypt cross-dc traffic
You do know that the national security apparatus can and does force companies to lie in press releases to the public about security- and privacy-related matters? Who's to say Google isn't flat out lying to us about that? There's no legal reason they can't lie to us if our secret courts force them to.
The problem now is we can't trust even the supposed "good guys" because the government has completely tainted the well with their secret courts and gag orders on companies (while still forcing them to comply).