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by throwaway2048 3266 days ago
There is a huge difference between actively breaking into every network and accessing all password data, and downloading some public file somewhere, with everybody's passwords in it.

The NSA is going to avoid the former as much as it can, because there is a huge chance they get burned in some way. Anything that they can passively slurp is a huge win for them.