"Secret" History of Silicon Valley (2008)
&quot;More details emerged from a Freedom of Information Act request in 2014, which revealed that Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt were not only on a first name basis with then-NSA chief General Keith Alexander, but that Google was part of a “secretive government initiative known as the Enduring Security Framework,” and that this initiative involved Silicon Valley partnering with the Pentagon and the US intelligence community to share information “at network speed.”<p>The Enduring Security Freedom initiative is just one window into how Big Tech can reap big dollars from their relationship with the NSA. In 2013, it emerged that the participants in the PRISM program—the illegal surveillance program which allowed the NSA backdoor access to all information and user data of all of the Big Tech companies—were reimbursed for the program’s expenses by a shadowy arm of the agency known as “Special Source Operations.”&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.corbettreport.com&#x2F;siliconvalley&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.corbettreport.com&#x2F;siliconvalley&#x2F;</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=QqvRzRj9tHE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=QqvRzRj9tHE</a><p>Silicon Valley is a story of government funded tech development where taxpayers foot the R&amp;D bill while VCs and white Executives reap the profits of taxpayer funded inventions.