As long as there's a chance that the NSA could be able to break strong encryption and thus gain a huge leg up on other nations/potential lawbreakers, the govern

As long as there's a chance that the NSA could be able to break strong encryption and thus gain a huge leg up on other nations/potential lawbreakers, the governmental sentiment will remain in favor of retaining the NSA in the face of whatever pie-in-the-face leaks come out. Last I heard, they're working on a quantum computer to do exactly that. http://www.cnet.com/news/nsa-working-on-quantum-computer-to-break-any-encryption/ http://www.cnet.com/news/nsa-working-on-quantum-computer-to-...