<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed Nov 05 2014 at 2:11:39 AM Jacob Appelbaum <<a href="mailto:jacob@appelbaum.net">jacob@appelbaum.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Does an internal audit of Google find a fault with US 702 collection<br>
compliance? Does Halvar really get to say that this is a security<br>
issue and thus they'll have to fix their PRISM enabled systems to make<br>
it less SIGINT friendly? I doubt it very much.<br>
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The security people at Google are some of the best in the world. Their<br>
hands are tied and they work for a company that orders them to do<br>
specific tasks. As far as I can see - post MUSCULAR: they're ensuring<br>
the only backdoors left are the ones they know, enable and sustain<br>
under gag orders from the US Government.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am under no gag order from any government, nor have I ever been asked to allow any backdoors in Google s/w.</div><div><br></div></div>