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londons_explore
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Statement on US government directive to suspend ac...
Which was a clear as day message that "We have ways to decrypt this, but can't yet decrypt that, so please use the one we can snoop on".
Yet somehow we're always forgetting that lesson and surprised when government is found snooping.
mortehu
34 days ago
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They didn't have some secret way of defeating 40 bit encryption; anyone could do it. 512 bit asymmetric encryption was also brute forced by a private entity, albeit at a high budget.
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Yet somehow we're always forgetting that lesson and surprised when government is found snooping.