| I don't think it's any secret that for the last 20 years it's been illegal to use, distribute and/or sell an encryption algorithm that the NSA cannot break (providing of course they notice.) Intel agencies defend their actions by raising the specter of hostile foreign nationals (terrorists, these days) using unbreakable encryption to communicate in secret. While it's true that could happen, it's just as true that the agencies miss most of the open communications that they'd like to intercept just because of the volume of information being disseminated every day. |