JustSecurity: "Today we learned that those 2011 (Sec 702) safeguards did not work"

[Mirimir]

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.
>>
>> <SNIP>
> 
> 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.