NSA leaker Edward Snowden: U.S. targets China with hackers

Re:NSA leaker Edward Snowden: U.S. targets China with hackers by brown9-2 on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @03:42PM (#5870241)

This isn't even that much of a reveal by Snowden considering 1) the Chinese would already know about this and 2) a lot of details about NSA's TAO group have already been published (http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/06/10/inside_the_...).

So now he is using the secrets he learned to buy favor from the Chinese government?

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Re:NSA leaker Edward Snowden: U.S. targets China with hackers by tdirect on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @07:38PM (#5871436)

If he did indeed reveal this, how is it "buying favor from the Chinese government"? It's hard to imagine the government of China doesn't already know about these attacks.

The beneficiary of this information is the U.S. public, so they can actually have a real discussion about cyber warfare, rather than simply believing the government line of "China hacks us, and we only defend...". How can we have a real discussion about our role in the world if we're told only about foreign aggression and not our own?

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Re:NSA leaker Edward Snowden: U.S. targets China with hackers by krapp on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @04:41PM (#5870580)

They don't even have to know it. It's one of those things they would just assume.

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