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Mon Sep 30, 2013, 07:09 PM Sep 2013

'Your data should belong to the NSA': Mystery billboard near SF

Source: Los Angeles Times

As if Silicon Valley's relationship to the whole National Security Agency spying-on-the-Internet thing wasn't awkward enough.

Now someone has placed a slogan on a billboard over Highway 101 near South San Francisco that reads: "Your data should belong to the NSA."

... Of course, it's possible that despite creepy, Big Brother-ish overtones, that it's the NSA itself just trying to get some good marketing.

Others have wondered, could it be the work of Michael Arrington, erstwhile blogger-turned-venture-capitalist-turned conscience of Silicon Valley? Arrington has been on a one-man crusade to shame valley companies that have been assisting NSA efforts.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-silicon-valley-wonders-who-is-behind-mystery-nsa-billboard-20130930,0,7422152.story

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