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Have family that work in encryption, you can think of barriers to entry as orders of magnitude in cost.

AWS can decipher decade old encryption standards for about $100k brute computational cost.

Nation states have access to 5-8 zeros of effort if it is valuable enough. Private entities have no chance against nation-state backed hacking efforts.

It’s one-sided or ‘asymmetric’, because western intelligence refuses to share commercial intelligence with western businesses (probably because there isn’t much of value to share... yet).

Only solution is political change.



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