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Re:How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH by jonnybgood on Friday October 16, 2015 @03:51PM (#10401616)
> we now know that the government passively records and stores as much information as possible on anyone

That's highly impratical. NSA's budget isn't infinite and they have many other operations that would also require funding.

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Re:How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH by macns on Friday October 16, 2015 @05:22PM (#10402087)
Snowden demonstrates the way NSA and the British equivalent operate on demand* at the documentary film 'Snowden'. You should really skim through it at least, you will be surprised to what their finite budget can do.

* they collect bulk data, then develop the tools to sort them out

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