tazmo8448 :
there were two guys that came up with an encryption system/program that was so good the CIA asked (read forced) them to stop then hired 'em to work for them...can't remember they're names but do remember the article discussing it...it was so good a system that they (CIA) couldn't break it.
Trucrypt. And you're confusing agencies. The N s A shut it down. It still lives as V eracrypt, but that one hasn't been audited like the first. Conjecture: ( And they didn't hire the guy, he had cancer, they bought him out for treatment. He might or might not be alive today.) No modern encryption can be broken, not in a billion years, not with quantum computing. One problem is getting access to uncompromised software. but even then, well, a $5 lead pipe to your kneecap will make you spill out everything you know.
Another problem is that the local thug in your neighborhood will take the lead pipe to your kneecap, and get your bank account password, but the top government agencies can't break into a file that might contain t error ist plans.
Personally, I approve of every backdoor the governments wants to put in to analyse or meta-filter and predict harmful things. At the same time, you see so many rogue governments employees, Snowden and etc. as a start, that are clearly traitors to the nation, and then you might wonder how many others are selling your business plans to chinese companies, how many are leaking your proprietary tech, your customer info, to the highest bidders.
I've dealt a bit in this personally, and my opinion is that people like Snowden should be executed. He's a traitor to the nation, I don't get how anyone could defend him. At the same time, he shows that low moral people are given access to too much power all the time, and probably routinely abuse it for monetary gain.