In fact, Schneier attributes Dual_EC’s discretion not to the NSA’s care for internet users’ security, but rather its focus on stealth. “Collateral damage is noisy, and it makes you more likely to be discovered,” he says. “It’s a self-serving criteria, not an issue of ‘mankind is better off this way.'”

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