Aug 30, 2013
(via Intelligence Black Budget Reveals Major Focus By NSA On Cracking Encryption | Techdirt)
The pie chart above? That's $11 billion and it employes 35,000 people. Breaking your encryption. As Poulsen notes, James Bamford (who has followed the NSA closely for years) revealed last year that the NSA had recently made an "enormous breakthrough" in cryptanalysis, and this should raise some questions about just how secure various forms of encryption really are today.
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