Comment by palmotea

Comment by palmotea 19 hours ago

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> Its interesting to imagine that somebody [1] is already now capturing encrypted internet traffic and storing it all long-term, to then hypothetically in 40-50 years or something decrypt it and draw value from that information. I suppose to blackmail future politicians, learn military secrets, whatever.

You don't have to imagine, there's literally a NSA datacenter in Utah for doing just that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

lyu07282 16 hours ago

That's exactly what I was thinking about too, but I was to lazy to find the link, thanks ;)