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sarciszewski on Oct 15, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: How is NSA breaking so much crypto?

Why spend $5 on a wrench when you can make a phone call to the FBI and compromise any server on US soil?

These cryptanalytic capabilities are mostly relevant for servers hosted outside the US, I'd wager.

acqq on Oct 15, 2015 [–]

For the servers outside, the case that happened in Greece after the Olympic games as an example of something much, much bigger but conceptually still more an immense "wrench" than a "cryptanalytic" approach:

https://theintercept.com/2015/09/28/death-athens-rogue-nsa-o...

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