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Re:NSA revelations could hurt collaboration with 'betrayed' ... by krek on Friday August 09, 2013 @11:47AM (#6186325)
> Yes, I do have things to back it up.

Such as? Bill Binney, having actually been one of the top mathematicians at NSA for 30 years, carries more weight than you do, unless you want to share specifics that back up the regurgitation of the "10 year ahead" phrase.

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Re:NSA revelations could hurt collaboration with 'betrayed' ... by rdl on Friday August 09, 2013 @12:21PM (#6186535)
Binney and Wiebe left NSA at what I think was the low point of the agency, after losing political battles internally and getting marginalized.

TAO, the shift to attacking IP networks, the shift to active attacks on commercial technologies (vs. spending years to defeat a decade-long-lifecycle foreign comm or cryptosystem), etc. mostly happened after they'd left.

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