Is Qwest – a corporate hero by defying the NSA?
The Internet is abuzz with the NSA story and the role of Qwest in particular – who, by backing away from the NSA and being the one major telecommunications company that declined to participate in the program – they may have played their cards well – despite being threaten to be thrown out of the government contract loop. There are already 20,000 posts on technorati that contain Qwest and the story has barely broke. The story on Qwest’s reluctance was made public in the USA Today as they single-handedly revived the NSA scandal with a scoop on data harvesting –