Technology can be positive or negative it&#x27;s all in the application, but that&#x27;s not the issue.<p>It&#x27;s not that the NSA is inherently bad or good, as long as it exists it will be able to break crypto because that is it&#x27;s mission, the US needs that ability for national security but it doesn&#x27;t mean that the NSA has to apply their capabilities to cast a net on the entire planet.<p>That said it&#x27;s very unlikely that an organization with virtually unlimited funding, and a recruitment monopoly on the best and the brightest in the field of cryptography and computer security will lose on the technology front. Trying to disarm the NSA is effectively trying to disarm the US that won&#x27;t fly, the only option is to ensure that they use it only when its explicitly warranted and not as a business as usual tool.