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Agreed on what the NSA's mission is, but there are much better and easier ways of doing that than stockpiling exploits. Our government, with its mass amounts of data collection, could just as easily socially engineer someone (for example, impersonating a trusted associate) to give up the right information.

I don't believe the NSA's mission comes into conflict with Obama's order, it merely suggests the NSA change how they go about their mission. But it's still just as clear to me how one would solve it, and IMHO they would have an easier time going the social engineering route anyway.




Social engineering would be HUMINT, not SIGINT.




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