<story><title>Rackspace Response to PRISM</title><url>https://community.rackspace.com/general/f/34/p/791/1347#1347</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>callmeed</author><text>I was thinking about Rackspace and PRISM today (I spend &amp;gt; $10K&amp;#x2F;month at Rackspace) ... and that thread about how all this could harm the startup ecosystem.&lt;p&gt;If the Govt&amp;#x2F;NSA wanted access to certain metadata and a company refused (like some claim Twitter did), what&amp;#x27;s to stop them from going to Amazon or Rackspace and throwing their weight around to get access that way? Or, if that didn&amp;#x27;t work, they could just keep going up the OSI layers (or tier 1 providers) until they get the access they want OR can force it be threatening to disrupt service.&lt;p&gt;My point is, even awesome companies like Rackspace are dependent on less-than-awesome companies for some types of infrastructure.</text></comment>
<story><title>Rackspace Response to PRISM</title><url>https://community.rackspace.com/general/f/34/p/791/1347#1347</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>purephase</author><text>Probably one of the better responses that we&amp;#x27;ve seen.&lt;p&gt;Regardless of my earlier posts, I&amp;#x27;m actually inclined to believe these service providers.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m curious, has anyone seen&amp;#x2F;heard anything from CA&amp;#x27;s? I imagine it would be much easier to just create a split network route at the ISP layer and decrypt all traffic.&lt;p&gt;Wouldn&amp;#x27;t be that crazy if you had all of the root keys.</text></comment>