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Originally Posted by Charlatan
One must ask why none of these cables used encryption? Perhaps I am missing something.
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Sorry if this was already answered. Certainly the data was encrypted in transmission, but it gets decrypted at the other end.. for good reason, because the point is that people with the right to access this data (like the source of this leak) need to be able to read it.
Encryption only helps keep outsiders away from your data. If an individual 'inside' your encryption scheme wants to leak the information, there are no straightforward technical ways to stop him.