Sun Microsystems Inc. had a root CA in browsers for many years.

http://www.google.com/about/company/history/

Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim writes a check for $100,000 to an entity that doesn't exist yet: a company called Google Inc.

Also, not a, but "the" founding investor in Google Inc., maker of Chrome.

http://sosc-dr.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-03/sunflash.20080313.1.xml

How did Facebook get such a sordid company(wood pellet man, Eduardo citizenship renouncer man, orchestrated blogger valuation leaking press, GS selling private shares publicly) through the SEC S-1 process at such an unrealistic valuation, then make the issue disappear after so many people lost money?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2012/05/26/department-of-homeland-security-forced-to-release-list-of-keywords-used-to-monitor-social-networking-sites/

My guess is the DHS has a "special arrangement" with companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and Twitter to gain secure direct API access.

Are you saying Forbes isn't credible?

Members of Google worked for the NSA as well. I'm not saying one way or another, but I suspect that they are cloning the encrypted data for a reason. Why would you waste all that bandwidth and storage space???

That's tax payer money. Otherwise they would just drop the packets. But they don't drop the packets do they?