If you want to prolong your email’s stay with the NSA, just encrypt it. Among the documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden is one describing the National Security Agency’s treatment of communication it intercepts authored by U.S. citizens. In short, if the domestic communication is in plain text, it has a five-year shelf life. If it’s encrypted, though, the agency can keep it forever. “The NSA’s position is that everything is foreign intelligence until proven otherwise,” said Veracode CTO Chris Wysopal.
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Encryption Lets NSA Store Your Email Forever
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. October 8, 2013 05:00 AMIf you want to prolong your email’s stay with the NSA, just encrypt it. Among the documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden is one describing the National Security Agency’s treatment of communication it intercepts authored by U.S. citizens. In short, if the domestic communication is in plain text, it has a five-year shelf life. If it’s encrypted, though, the agency can keep it forever. “The NSA’s position is that everything is foreign intelligence until proven otherwise,” said Veracode CTO Chris Wysopal.