Reply #51: encryption is all broken by the NSA

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who keep a massive bank of supercomputers specifically for this
purpose, heck with today's pentium server farms, a super computer is
hardly necessary.

You and I fundamentally agree that relative privacy can still be
achieved, but to presume that the NSA does not know is unwise. They
were focused on breaking that stuff in the early 90's, as of my
last exposure, and have been greatly enhanced by new computing
power.

What concerns me in your posts, is that you are selling the illusion
that privacy is not at risk and that "go back to sleep." use PGP and
uber-long keys. I suggest that the people who are paid to break your
privacy have access to the latest hardware and software technology.
Given that, there is little to stop a total meltdown of internet
security. I don't write anything on the internet i don't expect to
be faced with one day, as i pretty much expect the secret police to
have a full record... expecially on political dissidents writing
on an anti-bush site, when the "nation" is at war and dissent is
deemed treasonous.

PGP will protect your privacy from corporates, marketers and such,
but not from the government. My worries are with the billions of
dollars budgets for the NSA and such that have more computing power
to monitor internet traffic than there are servers on the
backbone. Heck, i bet they receive, and decrypt every single packet
from outside the USA for embedded terrorism chatter TODAY. Unless
you start corresponding with OBL, you'll never know... but
surely your music file downloads will stay private for a long time
to come, cuz nobody in national security gives a toss.