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Re:An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT by big_youth on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:47AM (#23640038)
The thing is all those three letter agency’s make heavy use of civilian contractors and commercial products.

There is no doubt they are using some bigco vpn or other software that can/will eventually be compromised.

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Re:An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT by jsjohnst on Thursday June 25, 2020 @02:12PM (#23643696)
> The thing is all those three letter agency’s make heavy use of civilian contractors and commercial products.

Using Ed Snowden’s autobiography as a point of reference, I’d say the IS agencies have probably 25% of the staff or higher as contractors, so definitely heavy use.

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