On: Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware

[sascha_sl]

Or they just ask, which is essentially how prism already worked for user data.

[boston_clone → sascha_sl]

Didn't some PRISM documents show that Google's internal use of TLS 1.2 was blocking a more widespread collection of data?

I'll see if I can find the slide that articulated the issue.

[caeril → boston_clone]

That was part of it.

The other part was "Do what we tell you, or you'll be Joe Nacchioed"

In a 2013 interview, Marissa Meyer made it abundantly clear this is why Yahoo "voluntarily" joined PRISM. One can assume the rest were similarly influenced.

[lioeters → caeril]

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

[Ericson2314 → lioeters]

Thank you.

[astrange → caeril]

PRISM is their database for storing subpoena responses. You don't "join" it.

[hu3 → sascha_sl]

They just ask: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51207744

[reedjosh → sascha_sl]

Yeah, I highly doubt there's any targeting there. The big tech Co.s are practically fronts for the US Gov.

[noir_lord → reedjosh]

> Yeah, I highly doubt there's any targeting there. The big tech Co.s are practically fronts for the US Gov.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket (1935).

History doesn't repeat but it does rhyme.

It seems to be the natural state that centres of power co-operate with each other lest they lose their power.

Churches with Kings, Corporations with Government.