alt Hacker NewsHow relevant is this (and the NSA's general spying capability) in 2025?
We hear a lot about local agencies perusing the services of private companies to collect citizens' data in the US, whether that's traffic information, IoT recordings, buying information from FAANG, etc. What's the NSA's position in the current administration? (e.g. we've heard a lot of noise in the past about the FBI and CIA getting the cold shoulder internally. I wonder how this applies to the NSA.)
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themafia • last Sunday at 10:43 PM
You only need to look at a few headline "true crime" cases to see the obvious parallel construction that is being done.
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dialup_sounds • last Monday at 1:50 AM
NSA is under Pete Hegseth's Department of War [sic] if that is any indication of their position and priorities.
NSAs collection capabilities have been greatly degraded. They can no longer read all internet traffic, basically everything is encrypted now.
NSA does not have magic tools to break modern encryption.