As I said, you and I are pretty much on the same page.
I do quibble on including Apple in your list. The Deep State, both FBI and the CIA has expended an inordinate amount of time, PR, and effort to force Apple into opening the Apple hardware and iOS to them through the San Bernardino case and several other cases around the country. Q even made it plain when he posted “Apple vs [Samsung]” with Samsung in the kill box along with the Google Pixel above it also in a kill box, but not Apple.
Q has never singled out Apple for attention in any drop as he has the others. Historically, I find it interesting that in several cases where Apple with demonstrably superior 256 bit built-in AES end-to-end security with US designed Apple iPhones (UK military and MI6 chose iPhones as did Mossad), but our CIA and government opted to go with foreign designed Samsung and Android phones despite requiring bolted on third-party encryption with encryption passwords stored in an open easily accessible clear text file. . . And forced our military to go that direction as well for standardization purposes.
At the time, there were already readily available cracking tools for the Samsung phone unlocking and NONE at all for the iPhone which even local police departments could afford. Even later, after the San Bernardino Terrorists iPhone was eventually broken into, it was an OLDER iPhone and iOS. Today, there remains no generally available tools for breaking into a modern iPhone and iOS without actually destroying the iPhone in the process and likely also destroying in the data the authorities are seeking. And Apple is still refusing to allow the FBI or any government agency to get access to the hardware or codes.
Even in the Snowden NSA releases, all of the Apple hacking and break in tools were for OLDER versions of iOS and macOS, not the modern stuff. . . And they required physical access to the mobile device to be used to install either a hardware chip or jailbreak iOS and then install software which would NOT survive the next update from Apple.
I can see your point with the apple encryption angle,
I don’t remember any Apple exec initials ever mentioned in Q post #571 or elsewhere, I suppose some of the companies could be unwilling participants I’m just so skeptical lately I could also see it as disinformation to give the public a false sense of security.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3040349/apple-samsung-and-microsoft-speak-out-over-claims-the-cia-is-using-their-gadgets-to-spy-on-people/ - HAVE YOU BEEN BUGGED? Apple, Samsung and Microsoft speak out over claims the CIA is using their gadgets to spy on people
https://wccftech.com/apple-google-fix-cia-exploits-wikileaks-wont-share-code/ - Google has finally come out of the closet and is saying what Apple did about the latest CIA leaks – many of the flaws leaked are outdated and already patched.
What do you make of the google vs google pixel in the killbox in the same post you mentioned that has Apple vs samsung?
Think Google [new Pixel phone].
Think Apple [vs. Samsung].
Why was Blackberry destroyed?
Cause google is definitely connected to the CIA through ES and he is also definitely connected to State Dept thru google ideas
http://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279447 - It was Cohen who, while he was still at the Department of State, was said to have emailed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to delay scheduled maintenance in order to assist the aborted 2009 uprising in Iran. His documented love affair with Google began the same year when he befriended Eric Schmidt as they together surveyed the post-occupation wreckage of Baghdad. Just months later, Schmidt re-created Cohen’s natural habitat within Google itself by engineering a “think/do tank” based in New York and appointing Cohen as its head. Google Ideas was born.
Later that year two co-wrote a policy piece for the Council on Foreign Relations’ journal Foreign Affairs, praising the reformative potential of Silicon Valley technologies as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy. Describing what they called “coalitions of the connected,”
Apple is also mentioned in Q post #428
Clown contribution in exchange for access code?
Why relevant?
Amazon Echo?
Google Home?
Clown contributions?
Apple Face ID Tech?
FB Face ID Tech?
The connections between the CIA and social media:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-media-is-a-tool-of-the-cia-seriously/ - You don’t need to wear a tinfoil hat to believe that the CIA is using Facebook, Twitter, Google (GOOG) and other social media to spy on people. That’s because the CIA publishes a helpful list of press releases on all the social media ventures it sponsors, via its technology investment arm In-Q-Tel.
I would suggest adding In-q-tel to your lexicon they are mentioned in Q post #222 and as the “investment arm” of the Clowns I think are relevant to the big picture
http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/in-q-tel-a-glimpse-inside-the-cias-venture-capital-arm
Founded in 1999 as a way for the U.S. to keep up with the rapid innovation in science and technology, In-Q-Tel has been an early backer of start-ups later acquired by Google, Oracle, IBM and Lockheed Martin.
“If you want to keep up with Silicon Valley, you need to become part of Silicon Valley. The best way to do that is have a budget because when you have a checkbook, everyone comes to you,” said Jim Rickards, an adviser to the U.S. intelligence community who is familiar with the activities of Arlington, Va.-based IQT.