[bigyabai]

> why would you expect the US not to be the largest investor?

Mostly because $FAV_TECH_COMPANY constantly tells me they love privacy. They fight backdoors in court, they rush out security patches and closely coordinate with the government to ensure I'm safe. Every advertisement seems to reinforce the idea that they cared about my security, I guess I put too much faith in the principles of private enterprise.

[tptacek]

What would that have to do with anything I just said?

[simoncion]

> What would that have to do with anything I just said?

It's a direct answer to the question you posed, which was email-quoted in the first line of the comment.

It relates the point of view of someone who's substantially tech-ignorant and -in part because they simply don't have time or energy to think much on the topic- entirely unaware of how the intelligence and infosec world works. People like that make up a somewhat-surprising fraction of the US population. Sometimes folks who work in computers are a member of this subset of the population!

[bigyabai]

It might help inform you, if you're unfamiliar with the sentiment Americans hold towards security?

Don't take my word for it, though. Scroll through the rest of the comments in this thread, I counted all of three unique users that took this article at face-value. The fact that we see this cognitive dissonance on HN should really reinforce how unimportant online security is to Silicon Valley.