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Yes, some people will do silly things.

I was familiar with both those stories, and neither is about the NSA hacking into domestic computers (by which I mean, computers in the USA, which is "domestic" for the NSA). Voluntary cooperation by firms is not the same as the NSA surreptitiously installing keyloggers.




> Yes, some people will do silly things.

And yet you were arguing a few comments up that the keyspace that 1password etc use was too large to ever crack. But you have to remember some master password. Your crypto is only as strong as the weakest part.

> domestic computers (by which I mean, computers in the USA)

I'm sorry, I thought that you meant "computers in people's houses". In the USA or not, I could not care less.

> Voluntary cooperation by firms is not the same as the NSA surreptitiously installing keyloggers

The keyloggers is a logical endpoint of what they would do with the 0-day exploits mentioned in the two articles. Not directly related to the "cooperation by firms"




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