“It’s worth considering the various vectors of technical and legal data-gathering that high-level adversaries in America and Britain (and likely other countries, at least in the ‘Five Eyes‘ group of anglophone allies) are likely using in parallel to go after a given target. So far, the possibilities include:  A company volunteers to help (and gets paid for it). Spies copy the traffic directly off the fiber.  A company complies under legal duress.  Spies infiltrate a company. Spies coerce upstream companies to weaken crypto in their products/install backdoors.  Spies brute force the crypto.  Spies compromise a digital certificate.  Spies hack a target computer directly, stealing keys and/or data, sabotage.”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/let-us-count-the-ways-how-the-feds-legally-technically-get-our-data/

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