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Re:US and UK agents moved after China and Russia decrypt Sno... by veqz on Sunday June 14, 2015 @03:29AM (#9714075)
On the chance that this is true (I have no reason to trust the British government on any surveillance topic), that would mean one of three things: 1. Snowden messed up and chose a bad encryption scheme/key. 2. Russia and China have the ability to break secure encryption schemes. 3. One of the journalists entrusted with the documents messed up with the handling of the keys.

Only number 3 seems a little bit possible, and even then I'm skeptical...

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Re:US and UK agents moved after China and Russia decrypt Sno... by DanBC on Sunday June 14, 2015 @03:54AM (#9714117)
Number three isn't that unlikely. Encryption is hard to use and subtle mistakes can ruin the encryption.

And some of the mistakes are not that subtle.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10276460/David-...

David Miranda carried USB sticks with emcrypted material through a UK border. He also carried a piece of paper with the password. The UK has abused their anti-terror law so ot was entirely predictable that they would abuse the law to detain and question Miranda.

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Re:US and UK agents moved after China and Russia decrypt Sno... by damagednoob on Sunday June 14, 2015 @08:39AM (#9714678)
4. Another contractor with as much access as Snowden defected.
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