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NSA finally admits to spying on Americans by purchasing sensitive data (arstechnica.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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NSA finally admits to spying on Americans by purchasing sensitive data::Violating Americans’ privacy "not just unethical but illegal," senator says.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have t read the article yet but followed to Snowden story closely. On the surface, i think the purchase part is different.

In the last interview I saw with him, he mentioned end to end encryption makes a bit of a difference, wonder if this is affected by that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Could be some loophole where reading something unencrypted can be compared to open radio transmissions, while cracking encryption to opening paper mail.

(Just imagining.)