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by whitegrape 3727 days ago
It would be surprising. Snowden's confirmations pissed off a lot of people in tech and either effected or hastened plans to build more secure systems in tech companies. (See for instance https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131106/00235225143/pisse...)
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From the link you gave, the "Google Security Guys" seem to be specifically protesting "industrial-scale subversion of the judicial process" by the NSA. This wouldn't preclude active cooperation with law enforcement or designing systems meant to comply with warrants (where a truly secure system would make this impossible).