Anything left from from good 'ol USA?
Yes I forgot. Numerous 3 letter agencies, cameras, police, security forces in kindergartens, schools and grocery stores, private prisons with largest population in it.

All it takes is 1% of surviving owners placed within state or federal structures. And you don't have too look very far. Just look at prominent politicians from South Carolina and their beliefs.
Somehow slavery legacy still lives on. Since physical enslavement is almost impossible, there is wide acceptance or perhaps general ignorance for various forms of enslaving fellow humans.

Are you surprised to see complete disrespect of privacy laws?

Too many previous slave owners and their descendants still lives and have say in politics. It was serious error by US population not to charge them with crimes and let them keep the wealth acquired by using slave labor.
Today that money are being used heavily in politics to induce laws to enslave people's digital lives and treat us like objects: credit agencies, info-search databases, social security numbers etc.
Privacy is treated as something that can be converted to dollar figure.

This "slavery mentality" must change or eliminated before we can talk about keeping our lives private.

Exactly, what is going on? Offended government bureaucrats removed your comment.

With Cold War over 'ol US is the new capital of totalitarian regimes.
Coming over you will
- get shot
- get imprisoned
- become slave

This is daily "American Nightmare" for 300mln of people living there.

Avoid, avoid, avoid. What can you expect in USA:
- get shot
- being imprisoned
- become slave
- minimum wage worker
Some people just never learn tricks of regimes or go ahead and live your "American Nightmare"

WTF is point of this article?
So many details, stories about asking for court order when it was reported that agency ignored 1000 times similar requests in the past.

Iran is bad so drums get louder and louder again. So pathetic.

Recruiters are waste of time. They have nothing to offer and only collecting resumes.

Apply directly!

Mod parent up.

4 programmers for company of that size, it is a joke. 1 programmer + 1 IT with extra work outsourced as needed.

For that size? 4 Programmers???
Fire 2 developers and hire 1 temp for occasional network staff.
I know Network Admins that manage 1000-5000 workstations. Easily.

Imagine how hard Google, Cisco, M$ and others must be pressed to put backdoors in their products.
It's like having "swiss cheese" of networking, so many holes.

How nice is to have private bank's cartel that prints and prints the money like there is no tomorrow.
Stocks up, profit up, US people deeper and deeper in debt.
Perpetuum mobile for Wall Street.

New trend.
Junior and medium IT positions are being replaced by students doing internships or minimum wage apprenticeship.
I noticed that working for US and UK companies.
Suddenly everybody wants to hire people fresh out of college or even before graduation.
Older workers are too expensive. It doesn't matter if this cause some hiccups for company, balance sheet is more important.

Not going to happen. After replacing official slavery with economic one, group of American oligarchs is O.K. with the current status quo.
This type of mentality is still strong, their success depends on suffering others, in order to win some have to lose.
Don't expect CEO's to give up any gains, their families, often previous slave owners raised them to keep wealth within "trusted" circle .

We just learned from the press that targets and directions come from agency.
So, typical of government
- create a project
- fund it
- find a disposable hacker to perform the "attack"
- report success
- ask for more money and staff