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On Jul 30, 2013, at 12:06 PM, Andy <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> First, private business has been already doing it for years, so the notion
>> of privacy is a joke. We have none thanks to advertising industry. So not
>> much is lost when government does it. And I trust government far more than
>> I trust private business.
>
> The cool thing is that you don't even have to choose one or the other:
>
> http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-disastrous-rise-of-misplaced-power.html
>
> [...]
>
> Some of the country's most influential venture capitalists and former spy
> chiefs are investing in companies now providing the government with the
> sweeping electronic spy system and evolving cyberwarfare programs exposed
> by Mr. Snowden.
>
> More than 80 companies work with the NSA on cybersecurity and surveillance,
> according to a recent report in the German magazine Der Spiegel that was
> based on top secret documents provided by Mr. Snowden. They include firms
> like the one that employed Mr. Snowden as an infrastructure analyst in
> Hawaii, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.,as well as scores of new players.
>
> Last year, venture capitalists pumped about $700 million into security
> startups, almost a 10th of the estimated market, according to Lawrence
> Pingree, research director at Gartner Inc., IT +0.88% the U.S. information
> technology research company.
>
> That's a small part of a broader technology market expected to grow from
> $67.1 billion this year to more than $93 billion in 2017, he said.
>
>
> [...]
>
> {WSJ source paywalled}
>
> --
> Andy
> "It's a testament to ketchup that there can be no confusion."
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