I remember reading somewhere about the "google aurora hack" that the hackers were able to access gmails built-in backroom and were monitoring email accounts. I cannot find the link right now but here are a couple for google and facebook.
There probably aren't any. But it doesn't take a wild imagination to assume that both Google and Facebook facilitate government requests either with a dedicated staff or through an automated self-service interface or API.
I don't doubt the NSA is spying. I think making the assertion without documentation that Google et al. have huge teams of people dedicated to helping them spy is a bit beyond the pale.
Consider the salary and benefits and office space costs of one employee at Google. Then assume that the backdoor interface requires at least a few employees. You're already at $1M. Now imagine a bit of extra infrastructure, people to deal with communications, legal, etc., and you're in the millions.
>This article describes technical best practices to help achieve compliance with U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) security requirements for equipment used in military installations.
Yes, I know what the content is. My point with showing that particular article is that cisco is not ignorant of securing to NSA's requirements - they have been working directly with them for years.
There are other MISO (psyop) groups embedded with all manners of information exchange. The Intelligence arm has people in all media outlets.
This was revealed multiple times in the last 12 years as we found out that handlers from intel ops were approving stories in the MSM.
This is NOT tinfoil folks - this is the farking reality.
Someone parrots an unsourced tinfoil-esque screed, and backs it up with a citation that doesn't prove anything, and I'm the one getting downvoted. WTF, guys?
the Wikipedia article on this changed over the years (not looking for conspiracy theory here). About 2 years ago the lawsuit section was more detailed. It said something similar in logic to this article's title; the defendant replied that no room of such nature exists, BUT this lawsuit should be thrown out of the court because of National Security :)
