<story><title>Google Chief Architect: we only respond to specific orders about individuals</title><url>https://plus.google.com/u/0/103389452828130864950/posts/huwQsphBron</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andreyf</author><text>His comments are actually the most insightful points I&amp;#x27;ve seen about the discussion regarding PRISM:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;I have my own suspicions -- which I won&amp;#x27;t go into here -- about what PRISM was actually about. I&amp;#x27;ll just say that there are ways to intercept people&amp;#x27;s Google, Facebook, etc., traffic in bulk without sticking any moles into the org -- or directly tapping their lines. You may find some interesting hints in the leaked PRISM slides [1], especially the second and fourth ones shown there. The subtleties of phrasing are important, I suspect, not because they were trying to be elliptical but because they reveal what was obvious to the people who were giving that presentation.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;And like I said, I have both some reason to believe that there aren&amp;#x27;t such devices inside Google, and that the PRISM slides are actually talking about a somewhat different kind of data collection -- one that&amp;#x27;s done from outside the companies.﻿&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas what he could be thinking?&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;wp-srv&amp;#x2F;special&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;prism-collection-documents&amp;#x2F;m&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;wp-srv&amp;#x2F;special&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;prism-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Chief Architect: we only respond to specific orders about individuals</title><url>https://plus.google.com/u/0/103389452828130864950/posts/huwQsphBron</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Two things that cannot be true at the same time: this Google+ post, and the idea that Google coughed up their TLS keys to the government.</text></comment>