[Cryptography] NSA versus DES etc.... was: iOS 8

[Salz, Rich]

> Alas the NSA seems to get this wrong again and again and again.

Because they've been told by our elected officials "do what you have to do to make sure that this [9/11] never happens again."

To paraphrase Dan Geer, if you're job is to prevent something from happening then you have to watch everything.

	/r$

PS:  It would have been nice if some folks stood up and said this is wrong, following Ashcroft's example.
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