[Lammy]

> I think that Apple suffers from not having that person at the top with taste who was willing to say “this is shit”.

It's probably just a coincidence but I can't help but notice how Apple didn't become a PRISM "Provider" until a year after he was dead, many years after the Googles/Facebooks of the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)#/...

[snowwrestler]

If you read the Wiki page you linked, you’ll see that PRISM was just the NSA internal source name for data sourced via FISA warrants—which are not optional.

Apple had no choice to “join” PRISM; the timing you see on that slide was determined by the FBI.