[Dailydave] The Neutron Star

[Richard Bejtlich]

To the extent the US IC has ever conducted surveillance against private
foreign companies, discovering bribery was the reason. Notice how often
bribery appears in the Echelon list.

Other cases, like Enercon, are bogus, e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enercon#Patent_dispute

It's clear that non-Americans (and many Americans) find it hard to believe
that the US IC doesn't spy on behalf of American companies, but it's the
truth.

If US IC economic espionage was such a problem, I would expect more
evidence. Everyone points to the same 2001 Echelon report and has nothing
else to offer.

Richard


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Fionnbharr <thouth at gmail.com> wrote:

> But the NSA do help American companies win contracts / do industrial
> espionage. One link I have handy is
> http://cryptome.org/echelon-ep-fin.htm#10 (scroll down to 10.7 for the
> list) which has a short list of known cases from the 90's put out by the
> European parliament. Also note that it's countries that the US would
> probably consider friendly that they're hacking, not just the main economic
> rivals.
>
> It might not be on the same level as the Chinese but it's disingenuous to
> suggest American businesses are somehow the innocent bystanders caught in
> the cross fire or that there isn't some precedent for this behaviour by the
> US.
>
>
> On 26 June 2013 23:53, Dave Aitel <dave at immunityinc.com> wrote:
>
>>  http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2013-06/26/content_16659265.htm
>>
>> Normally I don't like to stick my toe in the neutron star's gravity well
>> that is the NSA-Snowden discussion. But it's important to point out that
>> there are developing standards of behavior being negotiated not between
>> China and the US, but between corporations and governments as a whole.
>>
>> Chinese media has been going on for a week about how the Snowden PRISM
>> revelations about the US hacking China are in some way equitable to the US
>> complaints about Chinese government sponsored hacking for the purposes of
>> economic espionage. This is pure public relations nonsense. The complaints
>> US industry has about Chinese state sponsored hacking is not that it is
>> occurring, but that the fruits of the hacking are being given directly to
>> Chinese companies which compete with US (or European, or Korean, etc.)
>> companies.
>>
>> It is impossible as a US company to go to the NSA and say "Hey, my
>> competitor in China makes a pretty nice bulldozer, can I have the plans to
>> that? Also it'd be nice to know what their bid is on that contract in
>> Malaysia we both want to win."
>>
>> It's just that simple. Company's hate being forced to give information to
>> their governments, or trojan their networking equipment (in the case of
>> Huawei and ZTE). It's *bad* for business. Especially when you get caught
>> or it gets leaked (which it ALWAYS does one way or the other).
>>
>> But they hate state-sponsored economic espionage more and I hardly think
>> Chinese companies would enjoy a change in Washington's tune that allowed US
>> companies to employ the full power of the NSA against them.
>>
>> -dave
>>
>>
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