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.
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 :)
> 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