Since the early 2000s, the NSA invested billions of dollars in a clandestine campaign to maintain its ability to eavesdrop. The agency sees that task as essential to its mission. If it cannot decipher the messages of terrorists, foreign spies and other adversaries, the United States will always be a target.
The agency is said to have deployed custom-built, superfast computers to break codes, in collaboration with many technology companies. They are using supercomputers, technical […]