[Charles Stross being thoughtful as usual on a subject I think is pretty important. -egg]
I don’t need to tell you about the global surveillance disclosures of 2013 to the present—it’s no exaggeration to call them the biggest secret intelligence leak in history, a monumental gaffe from the perspective of the espionage-industrial complex and a security officer’s worst nightmare.
But it occurs to me that it’s worth pointing out that the NSA set themselves up for it by preventing the early internet specifications from including transport layer encryption.
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