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Resident evil: Inside a UEFI rootkit used to spy on govts, made by you-know-who (hi, Russia)

wayne 8

NSA has been subverting encryption since 2006,

"NSA has been subverting encryption since 2006,"

And this issue is never brought up when a bitcoin believer is promoting The Blockchain.

I remember when non secret level users were only allowed 64 bit encryption and even that tech could not be exported outside the USA. The idea was that the spooks could only break up to 64 bit.

At some point "someone" must have developed the tech to break 256 bit in close to real time and they no longer care about encryption.

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