NSA has broken most encryption

No, really! I'm not just making shit up this time:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html?hp&_r=0

The agency has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption, or digital scrambling, that guards global commerce and banking systems, protects sensitive data like trade secrets and medical records, and automatically secures the e-mails, Web searches, Internet chats and phone calls of Americans and others around the world, the documents show.

I hope you don't have your plots to *redacted* the *redacted* with a *redacted* and your CP stored on Google Drive, no matter how much encryption you applied[i]![/i]

In related news, the NSA stores all encrypted data, "just in case". https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130620/15390323549/nsa-has-convinced-fisa-court-that-if-your-data-is-encrypted-you-might-be-terrorist-so-itll-hang-onto-your-data.shtml

In other words, if your messages are encrypted, the NSA is keeping them until they can decrypt them. And, furthermore, as we noted earlier, the basic default is that if the NSA isn't sure about anything, it can keep your data.

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I didn't mean that creating an open-source CPU and architecture is impossible, just that the critical mass of people with the knowledge and experience of creating modern units and the willingness to do so simply is not out there (and the NSA already knows about all of them). Plus, given the necessity of generating the chips with specialized CAD software, that would have to be open-source and even more rigorously audited.

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Plus, given the necessity of generating the chips with specialized CAD software, that would have to be open-source and even more rigorously audited.

The only instance where you might actually need non open source CAD software is for placement and routing. The good news is that it's easy to verify whether the outputted design corresponds to the input.

just that the critical mass of people with the knowledge and experience of creating modern units and the willingness to do so simply is not out there (and the NSA already knows about all of them).

But there are lots of people who have related computer science and electronics knowledge who can do grunt work. You really need one or two all-seeing ``architects''. Add any more and they'll never agree on anything.