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		grandalf on June 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NSA: It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say if We Sp... Consider the salary and benefits and office space costs of one employee at Google. Then assume that the backdoor interface requires at least a few employees. You're already at $1M. Now imagine a bit of extra infrastructure, people to deal with communications, legal, etc., and you're in the millions.

ImprovedSilence on June 19, 2012 | [–]

And then we look at the defense budget, and it is in the trillions. I would bet anything that Google contracts to the NSA.

andyzweb on June 19, 2012 | [–]

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