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In reply to the discussion: Holy. Fucking. Shit. The candle flickers... (NSA) [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)113. Can they store it for 10 years?
If they can, then you can bet they can muster the horsepower THEN to open it like a packet of peanuts.
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Well, thank God the security apparatus isn't tied with private sector businesses.
napoleon_in_rags
Jun 2013
#130
Very Glad To See The Neurons Firing - The Trouble Is That None Really Know How Pervasive This Is
cantbeserious
Jun 2013
#2
You caught that too. So much for PGP. Encryption just buys a ticket to attention by an NSA bot, .
leveymg
Jun 2013
#5
It's picking up on the notion that any criticism of the administration is born in racism
hootinholler
Jun 2013
#110
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
LondonReign2
Jun 2013
#87
It can take millions of years of compute time to crack really strong encryption.
backscatter712
Jun 2013
#115
Have you seen the specialized hardware that has developed in the public space for bitcoin mining?
AtheistCrusader
Jun 2013
#116
Unless there are some ungodly breakthroughs in math, near approaching P = NP, you're flat out wrong
ConservativeDemocrat
Jun 2013
#123
Actually, I don't worry about being "snooped on". My point was math.
ConservativeDemocrat
Jun 2013
#128
By the time it hits your router, it's already encrypted with Cisco's encryption
hootinholler
Jun 2013
#55
It's called CALEA-compliant switches. Google it. Not a national defense secret - mandatory since '95
leveymg
Jun 2013
#42
Not at all. I've set up enough IP addresses & threaded ethernet cable through ceilings to know
leveymg
Jun 2013
#73
I thought it was obvious lol. By any means possible is how they operate. The Chinese are with you.
Catherina
Jun 2013
#34
Did you see that article where China mentioned our "sanctimonious mask"? Read this lol. The irony!
Catherina
Jun 2013
#66
I wonder how many accounts have been banned on DU over the years for spouting this 'alleged'
Purveyor
Jun 2013
#36
Wall Street and MIComplex meets NAZIs, Mafia, Eugenicists, Big Oil, Banksters...
Octafish
Jun 2013
#49
After the end of the Cold War GHWB shifted the focus from military to economic spying.
alfredo
Jun 2013
#70
It already is. We've been keeping it kicked for six days with less than 300 views.
Fire Walk With Me
Jun 2013
#98
"{W}e forgot that the question is NOT, how do we get good people into power. . . .
snot
Jun 2013
#125
And if not now, in a few years, brute force decryption will become easy.
AtheistCrusader
Jun 2013
#112
I have wondered all along what sense this program meant in terms of 'finding a number' etc
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#131
But the NSA and the Federal Government held up the release of open key encription....
Mustellus
Jun 2013
#135