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State sponsored actors are not magic. Basic crypto primitives and systems that have been already available for long time have proven to be robust against even the most well-resourced attackers. Everything we've seen so far indicates that generally attacks happen by running malware, exploiting opsec failures, or some such leaks/implementation faults, and not attacking cryptosystems directly.

Furthermore this scenario relevant for this thread, decrypting discarded hard drives, has very limited opportunities for complex attacks such as evil maids, cold boots, or other such more active methods.

Notably Snowden said following, and while no doubt some progress has been made since I believe the basic idea be still valid:

> “Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.”