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There could be many different explanations for that: 1: US foreign intelligence is incompetent. Viewing Germany or France as a military threat to America in 20
by flexie 13y ago
There could be many different explanations for that:
1: US foreign intelligence is incompetent. Viewing Germany or France as a military threat to America in 2013 is just nonsense.
2: The US uses its foreign intelligence to gain competitive advantages in businesses. I can't help wondering what kind of information flows the other way, i.e. from US government to US businesses, now that so many US companies have readily granted access to user data to the US government.
3: The US targets Germany and other European countries because it's easy to spy on us. More American government agents know German or French than Arab or Chinese, and a bigger portion of Europeans have internet connection and we host more data in the Cloud than the Chinese or Iraqi population, especially we host more with the American companies that NSA has direct access to.
- weinzierl 13y agoMy bet is mostly 2 and I have a 4. 4: Germany has more internet traffic than other european countries and therefore the absolute number of monitored connections is higher in Germany than in the other countries. I don't have hard numbers to back up 4., but - Frankfurt DECIX overtook Amsterdam as the largest exchange - Internet Census 2012 [1], Germany lights up like a Christmas tree, you can almost see the German borders - Broadband coverage is fairly good [2] [1] http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/images.html http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/images.html [2] http://point-topic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Studyonbroadbandcoverage-1.pdf http://point-topic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Studyonbro...