| Of course it's going to say that. What spies say, and what they do has never exactly been similar. Why on Earth would you trust them? >
Secondly have you noticed there have been no additional news articles about this since 2015 when the story first broke? Don't you think if there was an actual violation that occurred that Airbus would still be looking out for its shareholders and there would be more legal cases and formal complaints? I expect that this was hush-hushed over diplomatic backroom dealings. And there have been other legal cases and formal complaints. [1] [2] [3] As it turns out, complaining that the US spies on you, and steals your secrets accomplishes... Pretty much nothing. > If you look at PPD-28 you'll see that it strictly forbids economic espionage. I can think of lots of reasons why US Spy Agencies might by looking at the network activity - "spying" - on companies such as Airbus, but one of those reasons isn't for economic advantages because it is banned by law. As we've all discovered a few years ago, thanks to Snowden, the NSA is only somewhat constrained by the law when it operates domestically, and is not at all constrained by it when it operates internationally. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enercon [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage#Germany [3] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/820758.stm |