(June 8, 2013 at 4:09 pm)Tiberius Wrote: I'm skeptical about some of the claims of the PRISM program, specifically that they have backdoors into the computer systems of some of the largest tech companies in the world. I may very well be wrong, and if I am, this could be a major turning point on the Internet.
I'm skeptical that they have backdoors without the consent of those companies. I'm somewhat less skeptical that they have them with consent.
Given Verizon's willingness to turn over call metadata, it would not be without precedent.