Sure; I guess I should have said "credible allegations" meaning that a former NSA employee with specific claims is very credible, speculation based on a single exported symbol name in an older version of Windows is quite a bit less so.
I was a bit amused to read that "The Expresso platform will also be used as the base of the Hotmail-like system that the government is also planning to offer to citizens." Are Brazil's citizens that trusting of its government? I certainly can't imagine Americans trusting their email to the government even before Snowden-gate.
Well, what better excuse to push a product ready for local government control but to sell it as the antidote to the specter of American/foreign spying. Brazil, as some other LAm countries, love using the American scapegoat to distract from many local issues (the economy is bad, it's the IMF and the Americans' faults, etc.)
I mean to say this appears to be primarily a political reaction with nice governmental side-benefits.
I was a bit amused to read that "The Expresso platform will also be used as the base of the Hotmail-like system that the government is also planning to offer to citizens." Are Brazil's citizens that trusting of its government? I certainly can't imagine Americans trusting their email to the government even before Snowden-gate.