Do you think the NSA has backdoors to Google and Facebook?

[denem]

Known or Whatever? I have long imagined Zuckerberg sitting down for a nice chat with three serious dudes from no such agency. I remember like yesterday, Microsoft assuring everyone who cared that NSA keys in found it's Windows source code were a legal requirement, restricted in scope to verifying drivers. K?

[MaineLinePhilly]

1. Is a frog's ass water tight?

I definitely think they do, and I definitely think they SHOULD!!

[NYC_SKP]

3. Give me 47 minutes and I'll have an answer.

45 minutes of these are going to be devoted to finding a frog.

Poor critter.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Bet there was cash involved

lots of cash

[graham4anything]

4. Who ever thought Zucky was a democratic person?

I marvel at everyone who posts their personal diaries on the facey thing and then whines about cameras in the streets.

Zucky has long laughed all the way to the bank.

I can remember when we actually had real friends, went out in the then safe streets (no bullets were in the street back then) and played ball and whatever it is we did with out
real friends.

I feel sorry for the kiddies today.

We never had to text a message to meet with our friends on a summer day.
We never even had much time on the phone, as parents back then restricted use.

Got a little older, went to the park.
Went sometimes to debate politics and we stood on our soapbox and spoke
And people listened to one another

And well, as Harry Chapin sang, (C) remember when the music, came from wooden boxes...

Wonder what Harry Chapin would have thought about this facebook thingydingy.

[Recursion]

5. Depends on what you mean by "back doors"

The NSA had some input into Rijndael, but it's not clear whether they were putting in backdoors of their own or taking out backdoors IBM put in (or both). But Blowfish and Twofish were completely open development, and that's what Google, at least, uses.

[JDPriestly]

6. Of course. Facebook is an open book.

There is no real privacy anywhere any more. Not if you want to communicate with someone else.

You have to be a recluse to have the slightest bit of privacy.

[mwooldri]

7. Yes. And GCHQ, and many other intelligence agencies.

Not mentioning talented individuals who know their way about the systems.

[bemildred]

8. Why would they need "back doors"? nt

[annabanana]

10. Welcome to DU, CelticWarrior1

[zappaman]

11. You have to believe they do!

How would they not jump all over this technology?

[talkingmime]

12. Those back doors have been there all along. They don't even need them. Packet snoops are fine.

All they need to do is set up switches in proxy companies and snoop on what is going through. It's really not that complicated and the capability has been there since DARPA created the Internet (no, it wasn't Al Gore).

[DFW]

13. No.

They have the front doors open to them. I doubt they need the back doors as well when they can walk through the front entrance any time they feel like it, and I'm betting they feel like it a lot.

[Iggo]

14. Nah, they got front doors.