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Kilroy
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You obviously misunderstand. Anything that the NSA can use, so can hackers. If there is a backdoor built into anything that allows the NSA to access it, rest assured that someone else can be using it also. That is one of the primary problems with creating a method for the "good guys", nothing stops the "bad guys" from using it also.

FFH5
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said by Kilroy:

You obviously misunderstand. Anything that the NSA can use, so can hackers. If there is a backdoor built into anything that allows the NSA to access it, rest assured that someone else can be using it also.

Then why haven't they? If it was easy for hackers to do what the NSA and other national security groups from countries like China do, then there would be no savings account in the country not drained of its money.

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Exactly. An army of hackers is working feverishly to discover the backdoors the NSA has placed in operating systems, encryption software, firewalls, routers, etc. These will be found and exploited. And since the NSA has undermined and corrupted the integrity of so many software (and even hardware) vendors, no one is going to be able to trust the fixes when they are released. Many organizations - businesses of all kinds, hospitals, universities, NGOs, etc, etc - have statutory and ethical obligations to securely encrypt and store data. How is this supposed to happen when so much of the security infrastructure has been compromised? The NSA has essentially destroyed the internet as a system for secure data storage and communication.

PToN
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Stop saying "National Security Groups...". These are all "terrorist" organizations and shall be treated as such.

FFH5
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Stop saying "National Security Groups...". These are all "terrorist" organizations and shall be treated as such.

Treated as such by who? You? The UN? I don't think they care what you or the UN thinks. And exactly in what manner will they be treated as terrorists? What actions are you or anyone else going to take to hold them to account?

TelecomEng
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said by FFH5:

Then why haven't they?

And how do you know they haven't? You obviously do not know much about those groups operate because they typically do not go about announcing their attack vectors or doing grandiose stunts that would garner lots of attention (something totally fanciful and stupid like draining every saving account of its money).
dra6o0n
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Mississauga, ON

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And it also lets the 'good guys' look good or victimized, by 'coercing' bad guys to take the blame for those exploits lol.

NSA makes the holes to spy, but lets hackers take the fall in 'causing trouble'.
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All your 'bitcoin' encryption, isn't really so encrypted by now eh?
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