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Woah. Can anyone shed anybkight on this extract?

  This new capability will result in a much more complete and
  timely collection response from SSO for our Enterprise 
  customers.
Who are the NSA's "enterprise customers". Is this corporate espionage?


No. Companies use the term "customer" for internal requests a lot. "Enterprise" would probably be large divisions within the NSA - i.e. groups working Middle Eastern intelligence, for example.


I don't think you can say that with 100% certainty. There is some smoke - but so far no fire - that NSA collected data ended up with corporations.

https://www.google.com/search?q=NSA+industrial+espionage


What do you think the whole point of all of this is?




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