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RT @PandoDaily: It's time for Silicon Valley to ask: Is it worth it? http://t.co/FE5QoSrDy5
October 31, 2013
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It's time for Silicon Valley to ask: Is it worth it?
A hand-drawn emoticon ought to be enough to push Silicon Valley over the edge. The goading smiley-face sketch on a leaked NSA slide, courtesy of the prolific Edward Snowden, which pinpointed a weakness in the connection points of Google's and Yahoo's data centers, was published in yesterday's Washington Post alongside revelations that the spy agency has been doing more than just demanding that tech companies hand over personal data so it can monitor foreign suspects.