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> Get an iPhone and use it in preference to your computer.

Color me surprised, but wasn't Apple involved with PRISM. Gives me reason enough to believe they maybe in on similar programs given there have been no drastic changes to their policy and whatnot




The problem is that PRISM has conflated two separate things, and it is unclear how much of that conflation occurred at the NSA and how much outside.

Apple was (and is) compliant in the "release customer details with a court order" thing, which it seems is part of the PRISM data.

However, there was a second part, where the NSA got bulk access to communications without a court order. It is unclear which companies were complicit in this part. We know Google wasn't (because the NSA slide decks show how they had to intercept Google's inter and intra-data center links which were unencrypted at the time - and Google undertook a crash program to fix that).

Apple's statements are pretty clear: they say they only release information with a court order. That means they weren't complicit in bulk collection - but they may have been hacked at the time like Google was.


PRISM = FISA - it's just the NSA code name for data collection under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. All tech companies were involved, because to do otherwise would've been illegal.

The press cycle around the Snowden declarations made it seem like the big tech companies were in bed with the government, but honestly they hated it as much as you did, and in many cases the programs had different names within the NSA from when they interfaced with the companies involved, or were done entirely without knowledge of those companies.


Aside from Apple appearing on a PRISM slide deck, I don't think there is any evidence to support your claim.

I suspect they weren't complicit in being involved in PRISM, but maybe that's just me hoping.


> Aside from Apple appearing on a PRISM slide deck

That's far from a random mistake..


No doubt they may have been pwned, either by infiltration or other means. There's no evidence of them (ala Yahoo) complying with the NSA


I remember one of the slides implied that Microsoft did comply without much resistance.

I'll see if I can dig it up.




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