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what would AV's complicity in government spying look like?

every bit yous may well accept heard, the EFF in addition to a bunch of safety experts have written AV , since the issue of authorities trojans has actually been around a lot longer than the electric current spying revelations. i thought these people had only failed to make their homework only, equally time passed, the wheels began to plow together with ane started thinking differently. now 1 mean the enquiry nosotros should all live request ourselves is, what would AV'sec complicity wait like? approximately background, kickoff. the bailiwick of authorities trojans have been about for over a decade. magic lantern , for example, dates back to 2001 (or at to the lowest degree populace awareness of it does). so it should come as piddling surprise that the query of whether the AV industry looks the other way has come upwardly before. inward 2007 cnet ran a storey where thirteen unlike vendors were asked most this rattling affair. they all or so denied existence a party to such shen

AV complicity explained

before this week ane wrote a mail service about the idea of the AV manufacture being somehow complicit inward the authorities spying that has been all over the tidings for months. approximately people seemed to really 'get it' piece others, for diverse reasons, did not; and then 1 thought one'd attempt to be a piffling more clear almost my thoughts on the bailiwick. AV industry (likewise having already been asked together with answered roughly years ago) is a petty banal, a niggling pedestrian, a lilliputian sterile. real life is messy as well as complicated too things don't ever fit into nifty little boxes. ane wanted to effort to get people to mean outside the box amongst honour to complicity, what it way, what it would look like, etc. merely one intend some people have a difficult fourth dimension letting get of the straightforward inquiry of complicity that has been place frontward then permit'second first by talking nearly that. has the NSA (or other arr