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The article uses few facts, or the facts aren't detailed. I admit doing that when I comment sometimes, but it's wrong and I expect a journalist to prove his point (and help us convince other people in turn). Example:

> The deterioration of internet security as a result of the NSA stockpiling zero-day vulnerabilities

Not quantified. It would be an awesome figure to reuse.

> Brazil reportedly scuttled a $4.5 billion fighter jet contract with Boeing

It's been criticized on HN: Most people believed blaming it on the NSA was a PR move [4], whereas the real underlying reasons where certainly more complex and not related.

> The CEO of the European firm reported that within a month after the first revelations of NSA spying went public, his company’s business jumped 45 percent

Totally irrelevant if the company is small.

> The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has estimated that repercussions from the spying could cost the U.S. cloud computing industry some $22 to $35 billion over the next few years in lost business.

That's the best fact of the article. However I'm not sure Americans are impressed with it. In fact the country [1] doesn't mind spending $6 trillion for a war in Afghanistan [2], so they count those $35b as just another defense cost. Besides, the NSA itself was reported by Snowden with a budget of $14b in 2013 [3].

[1] I'm aware that's not what most US citizen like, but as a country, US did spend this money.

[2] http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-wars-in-afghanistan-iraq-to-...

[3] http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/29/4672414/leaked-snowden-doc...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6931035




The article is summarizing the report by the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute. The linked PDF contains some of the figures you ask for, such as:

> The CEO of Artmotion, one of Switzerland’s largest offshore hosting providers, reported in July 2013 that his company had seen a 45 percent jump in revenue.

This tells us the company is large within the country, and Switzerland isn't exactly small potatoes.

I think what you are looking for is the PDF itself, not the summary of the PDF that is this article :)




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