On 04/28/2017 09:59 PM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
On 04/28/2017 09:39 PM, Mirimir wrote:
It's prudent to assume that the NSA intercepts all Internet traffic. And that it stores as much as it can, for as long as it can, focusing on what seems most important. That everything is retained for at least a few days. And then it gets triaged, based on names, addresses, keywords, and so on. But metadata and encrypted stuff, the NSA reportedly retains indefinitely.
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Given how much traffic is now encrypted with TLS, I doubt they could retain everything encrypted indefinitely. And Google is behind the switch (they are now penalizing plain HTTP in search results, they want everyone to be on HTTPS).
OK, not HTTPS. But all VPN traffic, I've read. Hard to believe, though.