I won’t be an NSA apologist because in the last 20 years they have in fact made everyone less safe with their undermining of open standards. But for the purpos

I won’t be an NSA apologist because in the last 20 years they have in fact made everyone less safe with their undermining of open standards. But for the purpose of accuracy it should be pointed out that one of the two missions of the NSA is to safeguard American commerce, which they did for many decades prior (see: DES, selinux, etc.).