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captn3m0
>According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US.

This sounds alarming.

lostlogin
I find the idea that they listen to so much far more alarming than that they have the ability to break encryption.