Edward Snowden Says NSA Engages In Industrial Espionage

Maow writes "Edward Snowden has been interviewed by a German TV network and stated that the NSA is involved in industrial espionage, which is outside the range of national security. He claims that Siemens is a prime example of a target for the data collection. I doubt this would surprise AirBus or other companies, but it shall remain to be seen what measures global industries take (if any) to prevent their internal secrets from falling into NSA's — and presumably American competitors' — hands." AirBus is a good example of a company that has experienced spying from both sides.

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For a long time

[guygo]

This is nothing new. Ike's "Military Industrial Complex" has been getting the fruits of the NSA's labor since its inception. Gotta keep ahead of those Russkies (or Chinese, or Germans, or ...), ya' know.

So?

[bickerdyke]

This is probably nothing that should surprise or alert the average US citizen.

But neither should they be surprised when other countries feel pretty much pissed of by that. Nor should they be surprised when other countries also start to play by the rules the US set. Wasn't it the US gouvernment that declared hacker attacks as comparable to other attacks and threatened conventional military retaliation to cyber attacks? And who is caught with his hand in the cookie jar now?