begin Moritz Bartl quotation of Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:08:18PM +0200: > On 09/10/2013 09:27 PM, Lucas Gonze wrote: > > Let's say major corps like ATT and Chase are doing favors for NSA. Why > > would they if not for a quid pro quo? > > > > And if they are getting favors in return, isn't that illegal? > > > > I wonder if there is evidence to show what the payback is. > > http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-costs-tech-companies-paid
The PRISM companies benefit from tax loopholes that out of context looked like an extremely silly quid until Snowden showed us the quo. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-shows-how-60-billion-u-s-revenue-lost-to-tax-loopholes.html http://www.infoworld.com/t/federal-regulations/apple-no-tax-gimmick-left-behind-219247 What if it's just a matter of governments saying, "If you secure your systems, we'll secure ours"? -- Don Marti +1-510-332-1587 (mobile) http://zgp.org/~dmarti/ Alameda, California, USA [email protected] -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
