Corporate undercover nation-state agents

[Nicolas Bourbaki]

It should be clear now, if not long ago, that the US Government is the 
silent occupier of the stateless generation. This is true no matter the 
protest the American technological industry may attempt present in 
response to this fact. In light of this "Balkanisation" should be seen 
as a marketing term thought up by US actors to prevent the rest of the 
world from noticing that their data, sitting in or traversing the US, 
has less rights than that of a Syrian refugee.

On 11/10/2014 03:20, bluelotus at openmailbox.org wrote:
> https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/10/core-secrets/
> 
> "But the briefing document suggests another category of employees—ones 
> who are secretly working for the NSA without anyone else being aware. 
> This kind of double game, in which the NSA works with and against its 
> corporate partners, already characterizes some of the agency’s work, in 
> which information or concessions that it desires are surreptitiously 
> acquired if corporations will not voluntarily comply. The reference to 
> “under cover” agents jumped out at two security experts who reviewed 
> the NSA documents for The Intercept.
> 
> “That one bullet point, it’s really strange,” said Matthew Green, a 
> cryptographer at Johns Hopkins University. “I don’t know how to 
> interpret it.” He added that the cryptography community in America 
> would be surprised and upset if it were the case that “people are 
> inside [an American] company covertly communicating with NSA and they 
> are not known to the company or to their fellow employees.”
> 
> The ACLU’s Soghoian said technology executives are already deeply 
> concerned about the prospect of clandestine agents on the payroll to 
> gain access to highly sensitive data, including encryption keys, that 
> could make the NSA’s work “a lot easier.”
> 
> “As more and more communications become encrypted, the attraction for 
> intelligence agencies of stealing an encryption key becomes 
> irresistible,” he said. “It’s such a juicy target.”
>