r/CapitolConsequences • u/graneflatsis ironically unironic • Jul 22 '22

Secret Service identified potential missing text messages on phones of 10 individuals Investigation

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/22/politics/secret-service-investigators-text-messages/index.html
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u/Helenium_autumnale Jul 23 '22

This might turn into a Pentagon Papers situation. Because I have a hard time believing that you can TRULY delete such data. It's somewhere. Traceable. Right?

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '22

Maybe, but it's all a fact that the state of the art in cryptography could present a real "age of the universe" kind of problem. People assume that the current practice of data encryption can be routinely broken by motivated parties but certain laws of physics and mathematics may make that very unlikely.