wiretaps

Additionally, while it is generally impossible to detect wiretaps, MitM can leak information that betrays the presence of an attack.

It ends the NSA bulk metadata collection, but keeps less controversial things like roving wiretaps.

The country had a public debating about warrantless wiretaps and congress wrote laws about it.

Shouldn't Lenovo be guilty of hacking and illegal wiretaps?

That's why there has to be warrantless wiretaps.

Unlike wiretaps, physical searches of houses, etc.

>Former government officials with knowledge of the breach said attackers successfully accessed a database that flagged Gmail accounts marked for court-ordered wiretaps.

(Except of course when those wiretaps involve prominent members of the government talking to fellow politicians suspected of corruption, then those wiretaps magically fail...) If you move your operation to the Netherlands to avoid government snooping, you're going to have a bad time.

- Condi Rice is on the Board of directors - an avowed supporter of NSA warantless wiretaps - Users cannot control thier Keys such that it becomes impossible for them handover data to the Govt.

They even hint at it in the Executive Summary: Indeed, in 1992, the FBI’s Advanced Telephony Unit warned that within three years Title III wiretaps would be useless: no more than 40% would be intelligible and that in the worst case all might be rendered useless [2].

To me the article reads as if these wiretaps are court ordered, which means that it's unfair to call this "selling you data".

"All wiretaps are illegal?" This says nothing about how prevalent illegal wiretaps are.

Your logic says, "wiretaps are meaningless, because monitoring voice is mathematically impossible".

Simple encryption raises the cost of an attack from "trivial wiretaps, DPI optional" to the time, money, and effort required to do a targeted MitM attack.

Wiretaps, for instance, are clearly incredibly valuable.