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I think you’re biased if you don’t believe the USA is also doing domestic corporate espionage. Cisco probably has multiple NSA sleeper agents silently inserting backdoors into their routers.

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> On July 3, 2014, the former Technical Director of the NSA, William Binney, who had become a whistleblower after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, testified to the committee. He said that the NSA has a totalitarian approach that has previously only been known from dictatorships and that there is no longer such a thing as privacy.

But no, there is absolutely no reason to think that the US may be doing corporate espionage /s.

You don't seem to understand the definition of corporate espionage.

And you don't seem to understand what Binney meant when he said "the NSA can basically access anything anywhere, and they don't have to justify it to anyone other than the US President in person".

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