The NSA slide you haven’t seen
Is it possible that the CEOs are in fact telling the truth, but are unaware/ignorant that at the carrier level (before reaching the ingress points), data headed to their respective networks/server farms is being "copied"?<p>Does Google, Apple, Skype, etc. physically own Internet infrastructure, or are they all leased lines from carriers?<p>If they owned any physical "lines", and the gov was tapping into these lines, then they would be lying about the direct access claim.<p>But if they don't own these lines, it seems the companies can't do anything about it, and that the telcos are the villains.<p>Apologies in advance if I'm oversimplifying.