[whatshisface]

The Mossad/Not Mossad duality is a funny idea, but it isn't true. The NSA doesn't send replacement cellphones to millions of US citizens, they scrape unencrypted data.

They're not going to use a quantum computer on you, if they have one. They're going to embed your emails into a vector space that they can project your sentiment out of.

[dmoy]

I mean it's not literally mossad / not-mossad

It's <state-actor-you-basically-can't-stop> / <mostly-just-need-to-do-simple-stuff>

Mossad is just a particular type of the first set

[whatshisface]

That's the false duality. NSA cannot "be stopped," but they don't use every tool they have available on every mission. When conducting foreign intelligence operations against high-value targets they will use 0days you can't secure against. When they're unconstitutionally surveiling you they'll use http and a large language model. Your inalienable rights are going to be violated by a deal with Google Cloud, not a quantum computer, or even a kernel bug.

In this context, the purpose of tools like "five way secret sharing" is to communicate in a way that can't be broken without revealing the existence of the 0days and exceptions to the judicial process by using them on a hundred million citizens at once. The threat model is a lot of very smart engineers who can passively listen to anything that gets sent over the internet, not Perry the Platypus.