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Re:Apple Isn't Your Friend by Jerry2 on Sunday June 10, 2018 @12:09AM (#17276464)
>Or am I confusing 2 separate programs?

You are. PRISM is a lawful program that Google agreed to be a part of in 2009. Google's data centers were hacked (or the link through the dark fiber was) by the NSA and that's when they started encrypting that link.

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Re:Apple Isn't Your Friend by dooglius on Sunday June 10, 2018 @12:47AM (#17276586)
>PRISM is a lawful program

This is, at the very least, debatable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)#A...

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Re:Apple Isn't Your Friend by Dravidian on Sunday June 10, 2018 @12:20AM (#17276489)
Correct.Google reacted the same way as other companies did for PRISM.

But they didn't know that their data was also accessed via other means & they took action to prevent it.

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