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Re:Juniper breach mystery starts to clear with new details o... by mark_l_watson on Sunday September 05, 2021 @03:57PM (#28427245)
You are correct, and the transition point was 9/11. Before that the NSA was doing good work shoring up our digital infrastructure, as well as working with the FBI to go after international crime syndicates. I wish we could get back to that.
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Re:Juniper breach mystery starts to clear with new details o... by the_rectifier on Sunday September 05, 2021 @04:10PM (#28427355)
Not at all, it was focused on implementing backdoors and surveillance for decades before that.
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Re:Juniper breach mystery starts to clear with new details o... by craftinator on Sunday September 05, 2021 @09:47PM (#28429464)
> Before that the NSA was doing good work shoring up our digital infrastructure

Yeah, like introducing the Clipper chip!

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