Ah OK - somehow I didn't register that as "news" :-) Edit: Why the downvotes? As a kid, 30 years ago, I would frequently pass by the Echelon antennas. I was to

Ah OK - somehow I didn't register that as "news" :-) Edit: Why the downvotes? As a kid, 30 years ago, I would frequently pass by the Echelon antennas. I was told they were for spying on communication. So I thought it was a given for decades that the US (and others) are spying on German businesses. The technology might have changed, but not the facts. Wikipedia on Echelon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON