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You may as well make them work hard to get it. The NSA can only get metadata from your ISP.

This is a joke. If it's electronic the NSA can hack it with impunity, including your ISP. And that's assuming your ISP won't just give them whatever they ask for (unlikely).

I did once theorise that Cloudflare would be a fantastic NSA front.

That's why it is one.

There is nothing magical about these NSA hacks:

NSA putting implants into Cisco equipment before delivery to the customer.

https://www.certificationkits.com/nsa-upgrade-process-cisco-...

ANT catalogue from 2008 with hacking equipment:

https://dcssproject.net/ant-catalogue/index.html

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