The NSA Doesn’t Need Backdoors. That’s The Lie You Keep Believing.
Everyone’s hunting for NSA backdoors in cryptographic code. They’re looking in the wrong place. The real threat isn’t a hidden vulnerability — it’s procedural influence. The NSA doesn’t need to break your encryption when they can help design the standards that define what ‘secure’ means. Every VPN, every encrypted message, every HTTPS connection depends on protocols shaped in rooms where the world’s most powerful surveillance agency holds a seat.