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> I wonder what world you all live in in which this is a bad thing.

The world where we all depend on secure communications for autonomy of our own lives?

Again that's not the issue, the NSA's mission is to be capable of breaking crypto that's their job.

Having the ability doesn't mean that they need to use it all the time which is what you should be fighting against.

As long as the fight is centered around trying to disarm the NSA you'll lose because that's not the right tactic an the US as a nation cannot accept it.

How can we know who the NSA works for?

It's the only agency that works directly for the president :)

From what I've read, I gather that they don't always tell the President everything ;) Partly that's just complexity and incoherence. Nobody reporting to the President knows everything. Or even the important stuff. And I gather that the reporting structure is extremely convoluted.

Maybe it's all just petty fiefdom bullshit. But those are standard approaches for plausible deniability. And some bits are reportedly unaccountable, walled off through "need to know basis" policy. So how can we know who they work for?

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