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Right, this wouldn't even be news, noone cares. Is the topic of this thread in the news? AP phone logs are recently, echelon was previously, noone cares about CISPA, SOPA, AT&T diverting traffic for NSA (wired - http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70619 - did you hear about this one on CNN?) etc in mainstream news. The media would quickly label this 'conspiracy' and people would turn off their minds largely like your response.

Even if there were multiple whistleblowers on something like this the individuals would be attacked on their character and it would move onto the next (wikileaks). Writers would be most likely committing career suicide attacking something that big even with lots of evidence.

If our security agencies aren't doing this we are going to fail, the Chinese, Russians are all doing this even as recent at the Chinese attacks on Google. It is almost always flaws in software that facilitate the communication not the algorithms themselves.

You could easily test this. Modify OpenSSL (which recently had a keygen issue making weaker keys and has had holes before: http://www.gartner.com/id=676807), then upload an app that allows encrypted communication and when you upload it to Apple answer the question of 'Yes' to using new cryptography. They are mainly there for export controls but you won't be able to publish that app without an FBI/NSA review if you had added new cryptography algorithms, they have to be approved. Good luck if you send any messages to geopolitical sensitive places without an approved algo or library.

It doesn't mean people aren't trying to make new crypto libs: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70524 because there are lots of systems to track you now: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/ + http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/15/2876528/wired-nsa-building... and on and on.