On 04/28/2017 09:59 PM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On 04/28/2017 09:39 PM, Mirimir wrote: >> It's prudent to assume that the NSA intercepts all Internet traffic. And >> that it stores as much as it can, for as long as it can, focusing on >> what seems most important. That everything is retained for at least a >> few days. And then it gets triaged, based on names, addresses, keywords, >> and so on. But metadata and encrypted stuff, the NSA reportedly retains >> indefinitely. >> >> <SNIP> > > Given how much traffic is now encrypted with TLS, I doubt they could > retain everything encrypted indefinitely. And Google is behind the > switch (they are now penalizing plain HTTP in search results, they want > everyone to be on HTTPS).
OK, not HTTPS. But all VPN traffic, I've read. Hard to believe, though.
