Anytime someone wants to kick me out I take offense. He's talking about kicking out all American companies and making their own tools as a replacement. How is that not Anti-American?
These are not NSA issues its a global issue. What are the ROE for cyber attacks? There are much deeper issues beside the NSA reading my gmail, which I dont mind.
What I do mind is undermining technologies that are supposed to protect us from 3rd parties (criminals and governments alike).
Absolutely a huge concern going forward but right now they don't have anywhere near the reach of the US.
> Or the internet propaganda firms in Russia?
On a completely different scale from the US.
> The UK arguably
Their domestic spying is just as atrocious but internationally they are just tools of the NSA.
When one actor is 10x the size of all other actors combined globally it isn't out of line to put the majority of the scrutiny on them and the companies they have deep influence on.
I'm tired of Anti-American sentiment when your governments are in bed with ours. American companies weren't the only ones sharing data. German and Belgium telecoms were in bed with spy agencies and not just with the Five Eyes. In public Merkle was outraged but her spy agency was just as much to blame.
This is a global problem not just a U.S. and EU one.