Part 2 Snowden interview

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/vide...ideo-interview

Several additional notes:

1) Joined as an idealist, had mind changed by what he saw
2) Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc enable back end access by NSA specifically in a way so that they are not directly involved, thus not liable

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Re: Part 2 Snowden interview

And as a bonus, Spiegel also has more info which Snowden revealed:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-910006.html

summary: The so-called flagships of English-speaking democracies - they all do it. Some do it even worse than the US.