Kent Borg wrote:
For what values of "effectively"? Even the NSA needs to get money appropriated. Make them put extra zeros on the end and it matters.
Where "effectively" means that they get everything they ask for in terms of money and equipment.
What does it take to grab all the e-mail running in the clear through ISP X? A good data link to Utah (or wherever), and not that much hardware at key choke points Conversely, what does it take to do MitM attacks on all the e-mail running through ISP X?
The exact same hardware plus "master" X.509 certificates for all of the public certificate authorities. The former gets all of the traffic and the latter decrypts most of it as it comes across the wire.
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