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Re:Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hack... by bajsejohannes on Friday May 12, 2017 @03:48PM (#14327280)
How would you practically do that? Send all those encrypted hard drives to NSA to be decrypted? Publish the backdoor, effectively rendering that encryption scheme broken?
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Re:Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hack... by asdfgadsfgasfdg on Friday May 12, 2017 @07:08PM (#14328634)
Just ask the NSA to send you the un-encrypted files - they probably have them in their database anyway.
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