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		moonchild on March 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NSA Issues Guidance on Zero Trust Security Model Yes, because they don't trust anybody else to have strong cryptography. Perfectly consistent.

pdkl95 on March 23, 2021 [–]

The NSA calls this type of power asymmetry "NOBUS" ("nobody but us").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOBUS

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2017/05/why_the_nsa...

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