The headline says it all and it is written by Bruce Schneier and I respect his views.
According to the article:-
The main focus of massive Internet companies and government agencies both still largely align: to keep us all under constant surveillance. When they bicker, it’s mostly role-playing designed to keep us blasé about what's really going on.
These companies are doing their best to convince users that their data is secure. But they're relying on their users not understanding what real security looks like.
And IBM’s spending $1.2B on data centers outside the U.S. will only reassure customers who don’t realize that National Security Letters require a company to turn over data, regardless of where in the world it is stored.
Google could encrypt your e-mail so only you could decrypt and read it. It could provide for secure voice and video so no one outside the conversations could eavesdrop.
It doesn’t. And neither does Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, Apple, or any of the others.
Why not? They don’t partly because they want to keep the ability to eavesdrop on your conversations. Surveillance is still the business model of the Internet, and every one of those companies wants access to your communications and your metadata. Your private thoughts and conversations are the product they sell to their customers. We also have learned that they read your e-mail for their own internal investigations.
The biggest Internet companies don’t offer real security because the U.S. government won't permit it.
This isn't paranoia. We know that the U.S. government ordered the secure e-mail provider Lavabit to turn over its master keys and compromise every one of its users.
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