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June 8, 2013
Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple.
All nine companies have now denied, to one degree or another, participating in PRISM. The language in their denials seems carefully chosen, and rather similar.Zuckerberg and Page, for example, both say their companies don’t give the government “direct access” to servers. Both note that they hadn’t heard of a program called PRISM before yesterday. That last point isn’t particularly exculpatory — there’s no reason to think the NSA would share the name of its internal tools with corporate outsiders, whatever the relationship. But it seems to be a popular talking point among the nine. -- Zuckerberg, Page: NSA Has No 'Direct Access' to Facebook or Google Servers | Threat Level | Wired.com
Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 8, 2013 9:36 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Lair, lair, pants on fire.
Are we believe that Wired magazine has written dozens of articles and items about Prism and or the NSA secret data center:
However the companies who run the world's largest server farms and databases just heard about in the media. Really? In Silicon Valley where a tech firm can't fart without everyone getting whiff??
I'm sure this is just one of those wild and wacky coincidences that occur all the time in the highly secretive, proprietary, litigious tech world, right?
"Facebook Tackles (Really) Big Data With ‘Project Prism’"
Posted by: BJM at June 8, 2013 10:16 AM
"Your report specifies intelligence/counterintelligence with ComSec I-Corps."
"I'm not presently disposed to discuss these operations, sir."
"Did you not work for the CIA in I-Corps?"
"No, sir."
"Did you not assassinate a government tax collector in Quang Tri province, June 19th, 1968? Captain?"
"Sir, I am unaware of any such activity or operation...nor would I be disposed to discuss such an operation if it did in fact exist, sir."
Posted by: Rich Fader at June 8, 2013 1:42 PM
Yeah well they have to Cover Ass, don't they? They will lose users if they admit they're participating. And even if they are telling the truth and think they aren't participating, they ARE.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 9, 2013 8:20 AM
Hey, nobody in Weimar had a clue what was going on across the fence in Buchenwald, now did they?
Posted by: TmjUtah at June 9, 2013 3:51 PM