JustSecurity: "Today we learned that those 2011 (Sec 702) safeguards did not work"

[skquinn at rushpost.com (Shawn K. Quinn)]

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).

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at rushpost.com>
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