[WorldWideWayne]

You don't think they're a front company for the NSA?

What possible motivation does anyone have for doing evil?

[lucian1900]

> You don't think they're a front company for the NSA?

No, I don't. the NSA isn't magic or the Illuminati.

[WorldWideWayne]

Don't be silly. The probability that the NSA works through Google doesn't hinge on magic or the Illuminati at all.

It's quite common that intelligence agencies use front companies to do their work. Look it up.

[chc]

You're suggesting that a scrappy startup in a field everybody else wrote off which eventually grew to be one of the biggest companies in Silicon Valley was actually just a front and not a real business the whole time? That strains credulity — really far.

[WorldWideWayne]

Ever heard of Operation Mockingbird? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

[skj]

Project mockingbird, therefore the NSA established Google as a front company for spying on the population?

[WorldWideWayne]

So, the alphabet agencies have done it before but there's zero probability that they'll do it again right?

Yeah, makes perfect sense.