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Strangely, many tech folks seem to have normalized some very wild fantasies about what the NSA does.

I'm using the NSA as an example of a foe of sufficient capability, not saying that this is what they do (to our own agencies at any rate.) Someone who can trojan hardware, suborn any given person, etc.

I was hoping to use a very advanced force as an example to show that things that may sound secure aren't if your attacker has a certain level of resources.

Fwiw, most pen-testers would aso be able to bypass any such casually enacted system too, but that's less obvious so I had hoped to avoid that argument by going with an extreme example.

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