America Goes to War With Itself Over Data Security
I know a handful of well-connected, cynical security folks in Silicon Valley who continue to maintain pretty much the same take on Edward Snowden. They say they believe he was paid off by China or Russia to leak a series of security documents and change the tenor of U.S. political discourse.
Major security stories over the past couple of years have tended to center on China, in particular, hacking American companies to obtain intellectual property. Dozens of the biggest names in U.S. industry, from Google (GOOG) and Intel (INTC) to DuPont (DD), had been caught up in these tales, fueling anti-China fears. The situation got so bad that some U.S. companies were convinced that Chinese spies were physically infiltrating Silicon Valley startups to gain access to new technologies. For a change of pace, people would occasionally blame Russia, or folks in Eastern Europe with ties to Russian money.
Snowden changed this discussion in an instant, turning the gaze of the media, Washington, and Silicon Valley inward.
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What I do know is that the government and technology companies now seem more antagonistic than ever and that a sense of distrust against the NSA pervades Silicon Valley. It’s a situation that the government seems to have brought on itself, and that should be truly unsettling to the public.
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