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Because since the revelations about Google providing the NSA direct access to servers, they are extremely unpopular. Combine that with their reluctance to pax a
by mf3i21 13y ago
Because since the revelations about Google providing the NSA direct access to servers, they are extremely unpopular. Combine that with their reluctance to pax any form of tax, and they have the same public image as an arms dealer.
- brainsic 13y agoThe increasing number of trolls on HN is the only real issue gleaned from this thread. But if you're even remotely serious, and assuming for a second that what you wrote is true how does that justify shoddy journalism?
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- 1010011010 13y ago"Google providing the NSA direct access to servers" [Citation needed] The NSA appears to have tapped 3rd party fiber links, and not Google directly. Google is now encrypting data across those links, moving all client access to use https, and advocating for http/2.0 (based on SPDY) to allow only encrypted connections.
- adrianlmm 13y agoNot really, Google has been cooperating with the NSA.
- 1010011010 13y ago[citation needed]
- lettergram 13y agoThe U.K. spys on it's own users and shares it with the U.S (that was also released by Snowden)... I am confused as to why Google is any more to blame than the U.K. government itself.