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Encryption, etc. also merely pose inconveniences. At the end of the day, you don't need quantum computers to get access to whatever data you want. It's much eas
by alfalfasprout 3y ago
Encryption, etc. also merely pose inconveniences. At the end of the day, you don't need quantum computers to get access to whatever data you want. It's much easier to bribe+blackmail+threaten someone to get access to data. Or to buy zero days to access a victim's phone and go from there. Or to insert hardware backdoors and compromise a system at a fundamental level. Or install rootkits.
- willis936 3y agoThose are techniques organized criminals might use. Nation states need not bother. They just do whatever they want, including inserting MITM boxes in telcos. It is safe to assume that no asymmetrically encrypted traffic in the past decade has not been stored and decoded. It's a reasonably safe assumption that all symmetrically encrypted traffic has been stored if not also outright decoded.
- pdabbadabba 3y agoHow much storage would this require? I'm not exactly soothed by the thought that the limiting factor here might be the cost of storage but...maybe it helps a little?
- willis936 3y agoI bet you could get a lot of storage for 1 Bn USD. We don't know how much is in the black budget, but we do have a ten year old datapoint from the Snowden leak. There were many billions of USD dedicated to the dragnet. There is no reason to think it hasn't stayed the same or gotten larger. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/black-budget/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/black...
- alfalfasprout 3y agoMost content isn't all that high entropy I would imagine. So it would compress well. I'd assume a lot of stuff isn't stored either.