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    Default Re: How should European countries react on the NSA activities?

    Quote Originally Posted by Fisherking View Post
    Governments spying on other governments is typical and normal.

    Governments spying on businesses and stealing technologies are normal for defense but not normal when not defense related. Windmills have no defensive applications that I am aware of and passing stolen technologies to corporations to profit from is more outrageous.

    Governments monitoring all of the telephone calls of an entire nation is not normal spying. Be it their own nation or another.
    what defines "normal" spying is:

    the Advantage you can gain from doing it
    divided by:
    The effort/resources you have to invest into doing it.

    and my friend, the introduction and massification of digital communication has dropped the value of the divisor in that calculation to near zero.
    It can easily be done.....so it will be done.
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