Edward Snowden Says NSA Engages In Industrial Espionage 212
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.
German transcript (Score:5, Informative)
Can be found here http://www.tagesschau.de/snowden-interview-deutsch100.pdf
Re:*Not* news. (Score:2, Informative)
Fair enough, but you can't get upset the next time China is caught spying on U.S. companies.
Re:Ever heard of Locust Funds? (Score:4, Informative)
Snowden interview in english (Score:5, Informative)
Re:why the soap opera ? (Score:5, Informative)
The idea is that if everything is released at once then the story will ruffle some feathers for only a few weeks/months and die out quickly.
By releasing their dirty secrets one at a time and once a month, the story can be kept in the media for years (or so Snowden says). This ensures the pressure is kept on the NSA and government to do something. Though, so far the crooks are trying to justify everything they do and are quite defiant in defending their practices.
Re:Keep the love coming! (Score:4, Informative)
Once again, what does this have to do with ordinary citizens? Yes, agreed that Snowden's disclosure of PRISM was relevant, but he's just grasping at straws with this one.
That's pretty extreme myopia to decide that it doesn't matter because 'ordinary citizens' aren't affected... it doesn't have to directly immediately target normal people to affect them.
But to answer your question, ordinary citizens *are* directly affected, they have jobs in these companies. Ordinary citizens are shareholders of these companies (Even non-explicit shareholders, of you have a pension then you have shares one way or another).
Re:Outside the range? (Score:4, Informative)
a world government for the .000001%
hmmm,
85 people own as much as the bottom 350000000 people on earth combined - supposedly - (not half the planets wealth as reported because of course the bottom 350000000 people don't own that much) but still a metric fuck ton of planetary resources control. :)
85 divided by 7 billion =~ 0.00000121%, i think you over estimate the size of the world government there.