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by snazz 2541 days ago
Why would the NSA be doing such low-level (literal wiretapping) work anymore? Useful traffic is almost always encrypted.
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Knowing whom is communicating with whom is pretty useful to know, even if you can't decrypt the data.
Clearly this means they've broken public-key cryptography.
Flaws could be discovered in modern communication such that they can decrypt it in 30 years time. How good is 30-year-old crypto today?
They have a #ailored #ccess #perations department. Look it up.
You sure are playing it safe there.
They log who talk to who