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by OfSanguineFire 955 days ago
That the NSA engages in industrial espionage on behalf of US industry has been known since the European Parliament’s ECHELON report in 2000. There it was a matter of spying on Airbus, the major competitor of Boeing. But considering that that report made few waves outside of the nerd community (cypherpunks, readers of John Young’s Cryptome site and Slashdot, etc.), and was soon forgotten, I don’t think dumping the whole Snowden archive would trigger the large-scale controversy that you might hope for.