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I find recent NSA related craps utterly outdated, dull and juvenile. At this point, distinction between news on NSA's secret projects and government's public release of secret documents seems blurry and overlapping.

NSA has been working on quantum computing for decades. Recent success of both Israel and NSA in harnessing quantum computing for practical purposes is well known for at least couple of years. When quantum computing can blow off present mathematical proof of concepts in security, why waste time talking about decade old NSA technology? Why not discuss about the bleak future of information security? Why not prepare for the coming years?



>Why not discuss about the bleak future of information security? Why not prepare for the coming years?

Because then you have to acknowledge that threats exist that are not the US government, and that is not kosher because the goal is to reduce US power.


> the goal is to reduce US power.

Better put: the goal is to reduce US abuse of power. Accountability is the focus, not disarmament.


You are essentially arguing that other Western nations have no agency and are forced to do the US's bidding.




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