Denying PRISM
I’m really not much of a conspiracy theorist, but “ Triangulating on truth – the totalitarian state ” (by Michael Arrington for Uncrunched) presents a good one: On the Washington Post story [about the NSA spy program PRISM], that means one of these things must be true [emphasis is mine]: The NSA presentation is fake and the Washington Post got duped, or Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Apple, etc. are lying, or The presentation is real, and the companies are carefully drafting responses so that they aren’t technically lying. I believe the third option above is truth. The denials The following subsections contain the official denials by Facebook , Google and Apple . Read them and judge for yourselves. I’ve typeset words in bold that I found interesting and/or passages that are similar between documents. I’ve also numbered paragraphs that are similar. Mark Zuckerberg’s post on Facebook I want to respond personally to t...