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The NSA wants tech companies to give it 'front door' access to encrypted data

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Re: The NSA wants tech companies to give it 'front door' access to encrypted data

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The NSA is becoming a real threat to American Internet companies. This is concerning.

With the billions in tax breaks and subsidies, I have problems believing there is actually any coercion between the NSA and the biggie tech companies. So I don't see the NSA as a threat to those or any other American internet companies, but rather to everyone else. The NSA are monsters.

Re: The NSA wants tech companies to give it 'front door' access to encrypted data

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The NSA is becoming a real threat to American Internet companies. This is concerning.

How are they a threat? They comply with the NSL and operate as normal, plus the kickbacks that come with a strengthened relationship with the intelligence apparatus.

Re: The NSA wants tech companies to give it 'front door' access to encrypted data

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If you need a reason to keep your data overseas, here it is. NSA seems hell-bent on destroying the US' IT economy.

As others here have pointed out, US technology companies are very likely to be complicit, having chosen to play along and get along. Are they sacrificing their overseas revenue? Only the revenue from places that aren't the NSA's beotches already. The ones that are know they have no autonomy of decision-making and are comfortable with that.