Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, along with most giants of the tech industry, has expressed his critical views on the U.S. National Security Agency's activities before, but it appears that the most recent NSA revelation published this week has pushed him over the edge.
On Thursday, Zuckerberg called President Obama himself, after which he publically aired his grievances on (of course) Facebook.
Zuckerberg has a lot to be upset about after week's revelation, originally reported by Glenn Greenwald on his new site The Intercept. That's because, according to the report, based on top-secret documents leaked by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden, one of the NSA's spying programs called Turbine, which infected computers with surveillance malware, included a ploy where the NSA's servers would pose as (or "spoof" in hacker-speak) Facebook's own servers.
And then on top of that recent revelation, there are all of the other purported activities of the NSA that have privacy advocates, as well as social media companies that want users to feel safe sharing information, up in arms.
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