A war game event presented teams of NSA and other intelligence community staff with a set of scenarios for the year 2020 and asked them to assess how effective the NSA's current strategic plan would be in defending against potential threats, such as a series of terrorist attacks or an invasion of a strategically important country. The author of this post notes that the scenarios did not consider the effect that major changes in cryptology could have on the NSA's capacity to gather signals intelligence.
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