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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by rasz on Thursday October 04, 2018 @07:41AM (#18138968)
NSL letter, under active investigation
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by guelo on Thursday October 04, 2018 @08:38AM (#18139321)
NSLs require secrecy not lying.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by alfalfasprout on Thursday October 04, 2018 @11:05AM (#18140535)
The snowden leaks among others show that most companies aware of PRISM ended up flat out lying about it. Either it's a type of NSL we haven't seen before or employees receive death threats, etc.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by lern_too_spel on Thursday October 04, 2018 @02:20PM (#18142257)
No, none of the companies lied about it. The companies worked with the FBI's Data Intercept Technology Unit. They would obviously have no knowledge of a dowstream data processing system like PRISM.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by gnode on Thursday October 04, 2018 @08:58AM (#18139448)
Couldn't an NSL have been served to datacenter operators, along with the notification of the attack, and the organisation's management simply be unaware?
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by iofiiiiiiiii on Thursday October 04, 2018 @08:59AM (#18139459)
They might volunteer to lie, though.
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