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One thing widespread encryption would do is make it impossible for the NSA to just slurp the combined textual output of humanity into hadoop and mapreduce over
by JulianMorrison 13y ago
One thing widespread encryption would do is make it impossible for the NSA to just slurp the combined textual output of humanity into hadoop and mapreduce over it.
They can use "hitting the suspect with a wrench" cryptanalysis on a solo victim, but not on a crowd.
- makomk 13y agoExcept that they still have traffic data, which was the main thing they were collecting in the first place. Encryption only hides the contents of your communications - it doesn't hide who you were communicating with and when.