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If they are actively logging communications for future decryption due to predicted increased computational power, and the allegations of them leaking confidential communications to US firms to gain competitive advantage are true:

Then this is another argument against (foreign/multinational) businesses conducting anything sensitive in the cloud, even if it is encrypted end to end and stored encrypted. Particularly for information that the businesses want to keep indecipherable for many years.



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