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> The NSA still has a useful function

To emphasize this: I just spent most of the night reading about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EKMS. It's really kind of fascinating how dependent US gov/mil communications security is on these guys. The foreign-spying stuff is pretty much ancillary.



A big function of the NSA is also corporate surveillance: http://williamblum.org/aer/read/118





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