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No one said encryption was perfect, but it is how you make mass surveillance ineffective. Targeted attacks are very different than wide nets.


You raise an excellent point. I'd only counter that a number of the factors I raised are manipulated to retain mass surveillance even in the presence of mass encryption. Let's start with manipulating random number generators or controlling elliptic curve constants...




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