Haha no. Telcos have had a tapping mentality for a long time. It's not advertised, but it's clearly there. So, if we go from there and then take something like

Haha no. Telcos have had a tapping mentality for a long time. It's not advertised, but it's clearly there. So, if we go from there and then take something like https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hubs/ https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hub... and consider the complexity of that, then ponder XKEYSCORE and so forth, yes, absolutely ISPs store faxes __precisely because they're unencrypted__ and __precisely because they're routinely used for medical and other sensitive data__. Or the NSA isn't worth its $1B/yr. I don't know Ridley Scott, but he needs to talk to a nice security researcher at some point, someone whose feet are on the ground and who likes sharing honestly.