[Myrddin]

I believe if you do a little research you will find that in the late 80's or early 90's the French government advised the world that the USA's NSA has the capability to listen to every call made in the world. The NSA does not have the most powerful computer on the planet with out a reason.

Do a little more research and you'll find out the NSA doesn't have the most powerful computer on the planet. What they do have is people inside the crypto shops that planted hardwired private keys that ensured NSA could decrypt anything they deemed necessary. The absence of security is not because of incompetent cryptographic algorithms. The backdoors are placed there intentionally.

[kerouacbal]

Check it out again. Crane super computer builds their computer system. The last time they upgraded the released the system specs of their old computer and it was the most powerful computer even seen. There computers were linked together by coax cables witch was unheard of at the time. Some computer experts believe the old reason for them to have upgraded is because they have a new system linked fir fiber optics. Most private computer manufactures are still trying to make a fiber optic computer that is viable.
The backdoors are placed there intentionally
If you did read my full post you would of seen the comment that the telecommunications switches have built in ports for just that type of connections.