A million monkeys operating under the pseudonym "Ian Goldberg" typed:

Uh-huh. Unless the Administration has granted a secret Executive Order repealing the Laws of Physics for the NSA, the above statement, if true, would imply one of the following things:

1. <snip> 2. <snip> 3. <snip>

4. It takes 33 minutes to view the satellite images, wiretaps, and TEMPEST recordings, and bribe, threaten, cajole or torture the subject's friends and business partners, and run the "stupid passphrase/weak random seed" cracker. I believe it. Z who is still trying to grok how the girl scouts figure in. "You're a thought criminal!"