You haven&#x27;t rebutted his argument by adding this extra detail. Much of the personal communications infrastructure of the Internet is housed in the US; foreign targets of US intelligence use these services. It makes sense that NSA wants access to that data, and that their mission is harmed by US Internet services that provide an easy-to-use refuge from surveillance for the country&#x27;s adversaries.<p>(I&#x27;m not making a normative argument).<p>I don&#x27;t know what you mean by &quot;weak defaults in RSA&quot;. You mean RSA-1024? People use RSA-1024 because, especially during the time period where TLS began being rolled out to non-commerce websites, RSA-2048 was prohibitively expensive.