For its first 50 years or so NSA had a dual mission: protect the US from spying while spying on others. But these last 20 years they've undermined that first mission. They've now attacked and weakened American technology so many times that you'd be crazy to trust anything the NSA offers to make you more secure. It doesn't help when they lose control of their own hacking tools igniting a major expansion in ransomware.
I don't think America can ever recover from this breach of trust. Maybe NSA just needs to be shut down entirely. Or at least redefined explicitly as an adversarial agency to everyone.
I don't think America can ever recover from this breach of trust. Maybe NSA just needs to be shut down entirely. Or at least redefined explicitly as an adversarial agency to everyone.