I've worked in the industry since 1997, with one of my first experiences in 1997 with a double-digit CCIE cracking a cisco 3640 who told me how the NSA required them to place back-doors into all cisco devices - and he was under NDA, but he told me anyway...
Then working at intel...
then working with Mirantis+intel+redhat to build out "secure computing clouds" -- and shortly after, it was revealed that they put the back-doors on the actual intel procs...
And the USA bitched about the chinese back-doors on all Huwai chips...
And intel and Huwai were comepeting on Openstack hardware...
I mean FFS - EVERYTHING is compromised.
Then Snowden happened
Then FB - NSA revolving door...
I have encountered spyware-hardware in everything...
Then built out spying tech with Vizio, Philips, LG...
So yeah - I don't even care about privacy at this point - because it doesn't exist.
Maybe Ryan Lackey, Chris DiBona, or David Sifry can give you more insight...
But fuck - there is no such thing as privacy. So just say fuck it.
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Oh, and just to further clarify:
Echelon, Carnivore, AT&T Room 641A [0] --- Guess who was on floor 7 of that building directly above 641A when they were founded -- TWITTER.com
And guess who bought MAE WEST after the patriot act was passed; Cerberus Capital (north first street san jose)
and guess who owned PAIX (Palo Alto Internet Exchange) Where all of stanfords traffic passed through
And guess who was trying to ensure that CARNIVORE was installed all over the place - so they just fn bought the IXs --
Anyway - just assume a FN NO PRIVACY policy - even VPNs are all suspect....
