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No company has unlimited resources, but what company, in your opinion, has enough resources at their disposal as well as an incentive to crack a fully encrypted Internet?

Ah, the old "we can't stop everything so why bother trying" attack. (There's a better name for it but I cannot remember it)

But a few points:

- No company has unlimited resources. The universe doesn't have unlimited resources, AFAWK. - Even quantum computers can only take the square root of the complexity of many algorithms (Shor's algorithm). - Even if a company can, with concentrated effort, break the encryption used, it prevents (or at least drastically limits) mass surveillance. (If it costs your company a cent to decrypt a transmission, you'll decrypt a whole lot more than if it costs a million dollars per.)

False. What you say reduces the usefulness of encrypting everything but certainly doesn't make it "useless".

That's true, I misspoke. It does make it hard for the average joe hacker to get steal information, which is very valuable.