US obsession with security harming business
A deal between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) deal to buy two intelligence satellites from France worth $930 million is in trouble after the US NSA tried to put backdoors into the technology.
Two high-resolution Pleiades-type Falcon Eye military observation satellites contained two specific US-supplied components that provide a back door to the highly secure data transmitted to the ground station.
The UAE has asked the French to come up with some components which do not automatically tell the US about its planes and they might even move to Russian and Chinese firms to take over the project. Only the Americans think that Chinese and Russians do anything like spy on people.
