Re:New WikiLeaks Documents Reveal NSA Spied on French Companies
by foobarqux on Monday June 29, 2015 @05:32PM
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I'm pretty confident that if you were to do a study of American media coverage of the events, or a survey of American public sentiment regarding Chinese hacking, they would both overwhelmingly indicate a perception of immorality.
Re:New WikiLeaks Documents Reveal NSA Spied on French Companies
by jacquesm on Monday June 29, 2015 @06:29PM
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Ditto outside of the USA.
Re:New WikiLeaks Documents Reveal NSA Spied on French Companies
by schoen on Monday June 29, 2015 @05:38PM
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I think U.S. government rhetoric about this has changed sharply and used to morally condemn the PRC, but has now virtually stopped doing so.
But that's just my intuition; I'd love to see it more properly and systematically studied.
However, I do think there's a difference between remarks about Chinese hacking and NSA spying. Outrage about NSA spying seems always to be moral. Outrage over Chinese hacking seems more practical: it's taken as given that China is going to sponsor hackers and that they're really good at it.
Look at the recent OPM debacle. Virtually all the coverage I see about it is about how OPM (and the USG more broadly) fell down on the job, not about we should retaliate against the people who broke in.