The article uses few facts, or the facts aren't detailed. I admit doing that when I comment sometimes, but it's wrong and I expect a journalist to prove his poi

The article uses few facts, or the facts aren't detailed. I admit doing that when I comment sometimes, but it's wrong and I expect a journalist to prove his point (and help us convince other people in turn). Example: > The deterioration of internet security as a result of the NSA stockpiling zero-day vulnerabilities Not quantified. It would be an awesome figure to reuse. > Brazil reportedly scuttled a $4.5 billion fighter jet contract with Boeing It's been criticized on HN: Most people believed blaming it on the NSA was a PR move [4], whereas the real underlying reasons where certainly more complex and not related. > The CEO of the European firm reported that within a month after the first revelations of NSA spying went public, his company’s business jumped 45 percent Totally irrelevant if the company is small. > The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has estimated that repercussions from the spying could cost the U.S. cloud computing industry some $22 to $35 billion over the next few years in lost business. That's the best fact of the article. However I'm not sure Americans are impressed with it. In fact the country [1] doesn't mind spending $6 trillion for a war in Afghanistan [2], so they count those $35b as just another defense cost. Besides, the NSA itself was reported by Snowden with a budget of $14b in 2013 [3]. [1] I'm aware that's not what most US citizen like, but as a country, US did spend this money. [2] http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-wars-in-afghanistan-iraq-to-cost-6-trillion/5350789 http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-wars-in-afghanistan-iraq-to-... [3] http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/29/4672414/leaked-snowden-documents-reveal-details-of-surveillance-budget http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/29/4672414/leaked-snowden-doc... [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6931035 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6931035