The Government Electronic Surveillance Agencies
"If one would give me six lines written
by the hand of the most honest man,
I would find something in them
to have him hanged."
— Cardinal Richelieu
The walls have ears, behave accordingly.
Here are some organizations that take information security
and/or communications security very seriously indeed,
some of which also expend some effort in breaking that
of other peoples.
Depending on who and where you are, the below list will likely
contain some mix of good guys and bad guys.
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United States of America —
Note that NSA is the main comsec/sigint agency in
the U.S., although NRO operates satellites for NSA,
and DIA runs some of the other data-gathering
operations.