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by dale_glass 958 days ago
That only means it failed in its aim, and needs to be replaced with something better. If you really rely on encryption for something important, a system so easily broken is no good.

And "state actor funded"? Come on, the spam attack was absolutely trivial. It required no state funding, just a single person with an axe to grind, a target, and a trivial shell script. Attaching spam signatures was a thing decades ago already and didn't require any real resources of technical knowledge.