Now that the NSA scandal is hitting corporations (collaborators, if you will), does this mean that people will pay more attention to it than when it was "just" our privacy being seriously invaded?
With every revelation from the Snowden documents, we've found that the snooping by the NSA was far more pervasive, sophisticated, and unlimited than practically anybody suspected. It's all but certain that even more startling releases are to come.
Now the blowback is starting.
In the case of 'just desserts,' we have this:
Security Experts Pull Out of RSA Conference in NSA Protest
Jan 7, 2014
At least six speakers have withdrawn from the February 2014 RSA Conference, one of the top cybersecurity events of the year, in protest over allegations that EMC’s RSA security division accepted $10 million to essentially create a backdoor in one of its products.
Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer for the Helsinki-based security firm F-Secure; Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist and senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union; Josh Thomas, a partner at Atredis Partners; and Jeffrey Carr, chief executive of Taia Global, were among the speakers to take to social media to express their displeasure over allegations first revealed in a Dec. 20 story by Reuters’s Joseph Menn.
“You can’t get much worse than this, in terms of a security company betraying its customers,” Carr told CIO Journal. Carr, who also founded his own conference called Suits and Spooks, withdrew from the conference on Jan. 3.
Hyppönen was the first speaker to pull out of the conference on Dec. 23. Since then, others have joined him. “I’ve given up waiting for RSA to fess up to the truth” regarding NSA and withdrew from the conference, Soghoian wrote Tuesday in a Twitter message.
Thomas recently cancelled his plane ticket and withdrew from the conference. He has worked in cryptography for the Defense Department, has held top-secret security clearance and still has friends in the government. But the Reuters story, alleging that RSA accepted $10 million from the NSA to essentially put a backdoor in a product called Bsafe, was too much.
by lesphelps 
