On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 11:55:37 +0200, Saku Ytti said: > Is this legal? Can NSA walk in to US based company and legally coerce to > install such backdoor?
Well, legal or not... we will probably never know exactly what was said, but apparently the NSA was able to convince/coerce many of the 800 pound telecom gorillas to install taps and backdoors at the server end. > If not, what is the incentive for private company to cooperate? The same incentive that was used to enforce secrecy on National Security Letters for many years - play nice or you'll end up in an oublette, with a trial to (maybe) be held behind closed doors, where you won't see any of the evidence against you because it's classified. Remember, the US sprouted this "indefinite detention" concept a while back, and still hasn't backtracked on it, because of its enormous usefulness as a cudgel to deal with "enemies of the State".
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