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Fantástico – NSA Documents Show United States Spied Brazilian Oil Giant.

Glynn Moody’s article summarising the _GLobo_ article cited here alerted me (and others) to the importance of the news. As I see it, the issue is the further erosion of trust in the Web itself that for the last 20 years has been touted as the next great market field. And which depends, for its success as a commercial field, on trust: that of consumers, that of vendors, in systems allowing secure transfers of credit.

NSA Revelations Cast Doubt on the Entire Tech Industry | Threat Level | Wired.com.

“But the doubt is still there. And that’s the problem.”