While budgets are being slashed by governments around the world, national intelligence agencies are not only flush with money but they are increasingly networking their resources against the «threat». What is the threat? It is whatever national leaders and their governments deem it to be. One day it is «Al Qaeda», the next day it is Iran, then North Korea, then global narco-terrorists, and so on and so on…
I wonder how what the U.S. intelligence community is doing to spy on the citizens of the world compares to what China is doing? I suspect that China's hacking of the NY Times is small stuff compared to what is happening in the United States by its own intelligence agencies on its own people and the citizens of other countries.
A Beautiful Mind