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by jmakov 671 days ago
At this point what makes us think all major contributors are not on a payroll of one or the other state agency? The attack surface of the whole SW supply chain is huge.
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Sounds like a good social experiment. Work your way up to major contributor for a project, see how long until you're approached by the MIB.
All major, and not a single one of them has leaked it?
Besides the literal constant torrent of evidence?
Since it's a literal constant torrent, it should be easy to pick out some more specific things for the rest of us, please.
"Facebook on Monday joined a lawsuit pressing the Obama administration to allow it to disclose more details of its forced cooperation). Google and Microsoft filed suit in June."

Not to mention Twitter files.

These are just the companies with enough legal gravitas and social gravity to even mention the canary dying.