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The really concerning part is to be STILL believing that after the Snowden scandal, after everybody has seen the slides that explain in detail how the NSA sends an FBI team to gather data from (then, in 2013) Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, YouTube, Skype, AOL, Apple (and Dropbox being planned).

Also how Yahoo first refused but was forced to comply by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review.

https://www.electrospaces.net/2014/04/what-is-known-about-ns...

(Note that supposedly, "the companies prefer installing their own monitoring capabilities to their networks and servers, instead of allowing the FBI to plug in government-controlled equipment.")



And for Yahoo this was reason why Alex Stamos resign: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/report-fbi-andor...




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