Complicit Link

Yeah, I’m sure all of this would have been addressed without Snowden. From the Guardian:

The NSA spends $250m a year on a program which, among other goals, works with technology companies to “covertly influence” their product designs.

I guess I’m not surprised about any of this, but this will seriously undermine the tech sector. It’s already going to impact sales of Windows. If you were the Chinese or German government (or pretty much anyone), would you want to run software from a US company? In a way, this zeal will hurt the very technological lead that enabled this wide spread abuse.