Unless one counts Greenwald's say-so. We should be afraid, very afraid, because Greenwald says we should.
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and given NSA's quite obvious need to capture every bit of information possible
it seems likely they would alert on encryption.

Slides were released several months ago that said the same thing.

Fuck you Greenwald, lying sack of RW Libertarian crap.

that some people, when confronted with facts that undermined or proved wrong their assertions, rather than add this new info to their intellectual knowledge base, they dug in and stood asserted their ignorance even more vehemently.

It was an interesting study and a good article.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/20/leaked-nsa-doc-says-it-can-collect-and-keep-your-encrypted-data-as-long-as-it-takes-to-crack-it/

If you use privacy tools, according to the apparent logic of the National Security Agency, it doesn’t much matter if you’re a foreigner or an American: Your communications are subject to an extra dose of surveillance.

Since 29-year-old systems administrator Edward Snowden began leaking secret documentation of the NSA’s broad surveillance programs, the agency has reassured Americans that it doesn’t indiscriminately collect their data without a warrant, and that what it does collect is deleted after five years. But according to a document signed by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and published Thursday by the Guardian, it seems the NSA is allowed to make ambiguous exceptions for a laundry list of data it gathers from Internet and phone companies. One of those exceptions applies specifically to encrypted information, allowing it to gather the data regardless of its U.S. or foreign origin and to hold it for as long as it takes to crack the data’s privacy protections.

The agency can collect and indefinitely keep any information gathered for “cryptanalytic, traffic analysis, or signal exploitation purposes,” according to the leaked “minimization procedures” meant to restrict NSA surveillance of Americans. ”Such communications can be retained for a period sufficient to allow thorough exploitation and to permit access to data that are, or are reasonably believed likely to become, relevant to a future foreign intelligence requirement,” the procedures read.

And one measure of that data’s relevance to foreign intelligence? The simple fact that the data is encrypted and that the NSA wants to crack it may be enough to let the agency keep it indefinitely. “In the context of cryptanalytic effort, maintenance of technical data bases requires retention of all communications that are enciphered or reasonably believed to contain secret meaning,” the criteria for the exception reads. “Sufficient duration [for retaining the data] may consist of any period of time during which encrypted material is subject to, or of use in, cryptanalysis.”

..more..

If they have the authority to monitor some drug kingpin and then see that he is using encrypted email, then yes, they are allowed to keep that encrypted data in case it becomes relevant.

That is not at all the same thing as purposely looking for encrypted data around the planet then storing it simply because it's encrypted.

If this is not how it is being done, some kind of evidence needs to be brought to light showing this.
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This is the behavior of totalitarianism.

Sid

If the rest of the press had carried half as much water as Greenwald, these two would have long ago been in front of a Grand Jury.



Here's what Greenwald wrote on the subject of NSA abuse by them, when the story broke in 2007. In his story, Greenwald raised questions about the Comey visit to Ashcroft that have still to be answered -- six long warmongering profiteering years later:

Instead, six years and who-knows-how-many lives later, Bush and Cheney and the rest of their election thieving warmongering bankster oilmen posse continue merrily on their way, unpunished for lying America into war and making huge profits in the process.

Greenwald stood up to Cheney and Bush. He covered the story and asked "Why?" Wonder what NSA has on them?

Integrity means calling 'em like you see 'em, no matter who's at the plate. Er. Trough.

like how the Pentagon in the 50s and 60s insisted that any unionization or protest was a low-grade form of revolution and thus helped Moscow