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Does the NSA practices of leaving loop holes in programs help hackers rip of the average computer user?
It has been proven that the NSA has made loop holes in programs to assist in their information gathering so is this why there is so much hacking of computers and ID theft in America?
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- 7 years agoFavorite Answer
Not the average computer user. They don't want your data. Sorry to let you down, but you are not interesting to the NSA..:) During their mass collections of data using PRISM and Xkeyscore they get some of yours but it isn't stored for long. Even cell phone metadata they collect is just to big to store long term. And what makes you think they need a backdoor? Look at any Apple PC or iPhone. They all include a Trusted Root Certificate for the NSA. This lets them decrypt any data you send via a Man In the Middle attack. Microsoft may have something simular, but I doubt it. Microsoft is so buggy there are always ways to do nefarious deeds on Windows.