Monday, May 05, 2014

That NSA spying? It's NOT really doing us a lot of good.

NSA spying means Brazil's $4.5 [billion worth of] fighter jets won't be built by Boeing (Click here to read more)

Cory Doctorow
Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 10:14 pm
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Brazil's buying $4.5B worth of fighter jets. And rather than buy them from American military-industrial complex go-to Boeing, they're buying them from Sweden's Saab. Why? A contract with Boeing is synonymous with NSA surveillance. Multiply this by every country in the world and you start to get a sense of the cost of letting the NSA run around without any adult supervision. (via Techdirt)

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