Snowden Turns Over Classified NSA Info on Targeted Chinese IP Addresses to Hong Kong Paper

Hmm… So is Edward Snowden a hero or traitor?
The Chinese certainly support him.

NSA leaker Edward Snowden released documents to The South China Morning Post this week that detailed classified NSA data on targeted Chinese IP addresses.
Bretibart reported:

NSA leaker Edward Snowden showed a Hong Kong newspaper classified documents that revealed the specific IP addresses in Hong Kong and China the National Security Agency may have hacked.

Snowden gave the information to the South China Morning Post, which reported on Saturday that though the “detailed records” cannot be independently verified, they “show specific dates and the IP addresses of computers in Hong Kong and on the mainland hacked by the National Security Agency over a four-year period” and “also include information indicating whether an attack on a computer was ongoing or had been completed.”

The documents indicated the NSA attacks on civilian computers in Hong Kong had a success rate of more than 75% , according to the publication. The NSA reportedly also hacked Chinese University, described as being “home to the Hong Kong Internet Exchange which is a central hub of servers through which all web traffic in the city passes.”

“The primary issue of public importance to Hong Kong and mainland China should be that the NSA is illegally seizing the communications of tens of millions of individuals without any individualized suspicion of wrongdoing,” Snowden told the paper in an interview last week. “They simply steal everything so they can search for any topics of interest.”

It’s not clear how releasing this classified information jibes with Snowden’s quest to improve civil liberties back here in America.

China steals $300 billion in American ideas and research every year.

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