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Re:Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Sur... by a3n on Friday August 30, 2013 @08:13PM (#6304980)
Would there be a way to expose the integrity of a service (actual devices connected etc), read only, to every user of a service? So that when an interception device or protocol is used, every user who cares to look (and can understand) would know about the disruption.

And then, when the government says "Stop doing that, we want to watch your users," the only way to do that and hide the watching would be to disable the system wide security view. And people make their conclusions.

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Re:Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Sur... by hga on Friday August 30, 2013 @09:22PM (#6305246)
They have an answer for that: the government installs black boxes that monitor stuff. That's why so many companies cooperate by giving them data, it's a lot better than having random stuff in your machine rooms with actions and purposes you neither control nor understand.
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