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> When they sabotage standards, or keep vulnerabilities secret so they and criminals can break into peoples computers, then NSA is not prioritizing protecting civilians. Even the standards that they have been shown to sabotage (Lotus Notes, Clipper, Dual_EC_DRBG), they have sabotaged it in a way that should have reduced the security of the system against NSA , but not in general. I'll note that I disagree with this c…
> something rotten with them. Like spying on us?
It happens that now the rest of the world is using the same crypto we're using, but that's not NSA's fault. Nor is it a major degradation over a status quo; the government has usually been able to "spy on us", it's only been a short time comparatively speaking that it was even possible for the average citizen to completely encipher their communications. Telegrams, for instance, were copied and read as a matter of course if they crossed international boundaries.