<story><title>Mark Zuckerberg addresses PRISM</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10100828955847631</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WestCoastJustin</author><text>I would like to believe these reports from Google [1] and Facebook [2], but someone is not telling the truth.&lt;p&gt;There is evidence that directly contradicts their stories (i.e. &lt;i&gt;The Guardian has verified the authenticity of the document, a 41-slide PowerPoint presentation – classified as top secret with no distribution to foreign allies – which was apparently used to train intelligence operatives on the capabilities of the program. The document claims &amp;quot;collection directly from the servers&amp;quot; of major US service providers&lt;/i&gt;. [3]).&lt;p&gt;Who are we to believe?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;googleblog.blogspot.ca&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;what.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;googleblog.blogspot.ca&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;what.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.facebook.com&amp;#x2F;zuck&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;10100828955847631&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.facebook.com&amp;#x2F;zuck&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;10100828955847631&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.guardian.co.uk&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;jun&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;us-tech-giants-nsa-data&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.guardian.co.uk&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;jun&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;us-tech-giants-n...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text>There is no contradiction if you accept the suggestion from &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;financialcryptography.com&amp;#x2F;mt&amp;#x2F;archives&amp;#x2F;001431.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;financialcryptography.com&amp;#x2F;mt&amp;#x2F;archives&amp;#x2F;001431.html&lt;/a&gt; that the NSA got access to this information by planting moles at target companies who then created back doors for the NSA to use.&lt;p&gt;This would be reasonably easy for the NSA to do, relatively hard for companies to catch, and perfectly explains all published facts.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mark Zuckerberg addresses PRISM</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10100828955847631</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WestCoastJustin</author><text>I would like to believe these reports from Google [1] and Facebook [2], but someone is not telling the truth.&lt;p&gt;There is evidence that directly contradicts their stories (i.e. &lt;i&gt;The Guardian has verified the authenticity of the document, a 41-slide PowerPoint presentation – classified as top secret with no distribution to foreign allies – which was apparently used to train intelligence operatives on the capabilities of the program. The document claims &amp;quot;collection directly from the servers&amp;quot; of major US service providers&lt;/i&gt;. [3]).&lt;p&gt;Who are we to believe?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;googleblog.blogspot.ca&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;what.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;googleblog.blogspot.ca&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;what.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.facebook.com&amp;#x2F;zuck&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;10100828955847631&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.facebook.com&amp;#x2F;zuck&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;10100828955847631&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.guardian.co.uk&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;jun&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;us-tech-giants-nsa-data&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.guardian.co.uk&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;jun&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;us-tech-giants-n...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nolok</author><text>To quote myself in another message,&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;ve never taken a single lesson in legal or PR and even I can see the big huge holes. They insist on direct access, they insist on servers rather than data and they insist on governments.</text></comment>