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I´m pretty sure the unencrypted communications will be automatically parsed and processed to look for certain patterns or keyword, and if not found, ignored, but after processing nonetheless.

They can attack an encrypted communication and probably decrypt it, but they just want you to be afraid of encrypting with fear of being targeted so that they have it easier to process your information.

But that´s a fallacy and a puny tactic to make the general public afraid of being under scrutiny because of the very reason of using encryption.

They might be able to decypher encrypted communications if they are the minority, but even with their big supercomputers and billions of dollars, I doubt they would be able to process people´s communication if encryption was the majority of communications.

And these articles work towards the NSA´s goals and agenda misleading the public in thinking that it´s better not to use any encryption at all. If the public was educated on this subject and everyone used encryption, I guess they would have a really hard time processing all this information...

parent drKarl 13 years ago

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