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isn't the us government hacking all the time too?

• roel_v 11y ago
  While true as an abstract point, is there any evidence that US government shares (on a large scale) intel or stolen IP with commercial firms? I mean it's one thing if a high-ranking official would say to a CEO 'we found out company XYZ is bidding x million dollars against you'; but it's another to systematically feed design documents, customer records etc. into firms and keep that under wraps. Occam's Razor says that at some point, someone would have spilled the beans - long before Snowden.
  • fspeech 11y ago
    Do you think that the US government won't share with industry if another country is leading in research and development?
    • roel_v 11y ago
      That's not my question. My question is, if it would happen at a detailed scale (i.e., anything more than can be communicated in ad-hoc conversations), how likely is it that this could be kept under wraps? My point being, of course, that I think that's highly unlikely, given how apparently even a US president can't stop the world from finding out that he fingerbanged a single intern. Therefore, the most logical conclusion would be that it doesn't happen. To all those saying it does: why isn't there proof of it? (please no 'the landing on the moon didn't happen' tinfoil hattery)