Nearly a decade after whistleblower Edward Snowden exposed how the US government has built a massive surveillance apparatus to spy on Americans and people across the globe, US' cyberattacks and surveillance activities overseas haven't stopped.
Snowden was granted Russian citizenship on Monday. He has been living in Russia since 2013 to escape prosecution in the US after leaking secret files. The news once again sparked discussion around the cyberattacks and information theft committed by the US at home and abroad.
Snowden uncovered the shame of the US government in 2013, causing a global stir and exposing Washington's rogue behavior to the rest of the world. The US government's violation of the privacy of American citizens and the security, dignity and interests of other sovereign country is in stark contrast to its public statements in the international arena, dealing a heavy blow to US' government's image of self-proclaimed democracy, freedom and defense of human rights.
What's worse, there is no sign that Washington will give up its global cyberattacks and surveillance activities.
In June, China's Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) issued a statement indicating that a hacker group from outside China had attacked the university's servers. And in September, an investigation revealed that the attack came from the US NSA's Office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO), a cyber-warfare intelligence-gathering unit.
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