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p-e-w on Aug 9, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Infrastructure audit completed by Radically Open S...

Volkswagen's research budget was $21 billion in 2022. $10.5bn is nothing in the big picture, and certainly not enough to "control the world" or whatever grand claims are commonly made about the NSA.

pessimizer on Aug 9, 2023 | [–]

Do you think Volkswagen could compromise or secretly own a VPN service?

You're the one making grand claims about the NSA controlling the world. It's a lot easier to argue with claims you made up.

robertlagrant on Aug 9, 2023 | [–]

No one said control the world. Just that a VPN provider is probably compromised by the NSA.

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