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Re:ESP32/ESP8266 Wi-Fi Attacks by _jal on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @05:44PM (#20871506)
You seem to be making specific, narrow arguments to cast doubt on a much wider claim.

Care to state your belief about the relations between the TLAs and the larger networking and communications firms in the US?

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Re:ESP32/ESP8266 Wi-Fi Attacks by nl on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @03:04AM (#20874667)
You seem to be making specific, narrow arguments to cast doubt on a much wider claim.

Not the OP, but I think that addressing specific parts of the claim is extremely important.

We've seen this around the PRISM program, where the allegations of support by tech companies were confused by their support for lawful law enforcment warrants (as opposed to the NSA's dragnet surveillance via PRISM). This confusion has reached the point where I saw a lecturer claiming Google helped the NSA collect data as part of PRISM, where the NSA's own slides[1] show the opposite[2].

[1] The famous "smiley slide" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/new-docs-show-ns... or https://slate.com/technology/2013/10/nsa-muscular-program-sp...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/googl...

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