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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.<br>
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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. <br>
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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." <br>
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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 <b>bad</b> for
business. Especially when you get caught or it gets leaked (which it
ALWAYS does one way or the other).<br>
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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.<br>
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-dave<br>
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