NSA finally admits to spying on Americans by purchasing sensitive data::Violating Americans’ privacy “not just unethical but illegal,” senator says.

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    9 months ago

    I have t read the article yet but followed to Snowden story closely. On the surface, i think the purchase part is different.

    In the last interview I saw with him, he mentioned end to end encryption makes a bit of a difference, wonder if this is affected by that?

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      9 months ago

      Could be some loophole where reading something unencrypted can be compared to open radio transmissions, while cracking encryption to opening paper mail.

      (Just imagining.)