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by rl3 455 days ago
>It's much easier to send an NSL to Google to read your email than to try to intercept it over the wire. The latter capability would be reserved for high-value targets unreachable by the US legal system, not mass surveillance.

https://blog.encrypt.me/2013/11/05/ssl-added-and-removed-her...

That pissed a lot of people off at Google, and served as a major catalyst for their in-house RISC-V networking hardware.