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		weberc2 on April 2, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CNNIC's response to Google Really? Everything I've read suggests Google does its best to resist subpoenas, takedowns, etc. Meanwhile, Microsoft was caught red-handed installing backdoors. What am I missing about Google "cozying up to" the US gov? > breaking SSL goes well beyond free speech (e.g., industrial espionage etc) So we should thank them for protecting us against that as well?

toyg on April 5, 2015 [–]

See this for what I meant: https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/

> So we should thank them for protecting us against [compromising SSL] as well?

I'm just saying they have a much wider interest in keeping SSL reasonably secure than just to "defend free speech".

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