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Well, if you can do that (program a computer via a blinking keyboard LED in Morse code to avoid Van Eck phreaking,) you're well on your way to discovering the lost Nazi gold in the Philippines.

isn't safe because of timing attacks

What about that it isn't safe because of who is running many of the exit nodes?

I don't know why you're saying Elliptic Curve is not widely available, here is an Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman implementation guide from the NSA itself: http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/SuiteB_Implementer_G-113808.pdf

Those patents are quite questionable anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_patents

It probably was that you can see newsprint, not read it.

The least of it is to not be the lowest-hanging fruit.

I'm suddenly reminded of Apple Ireland, the largest owner of Apple's non-US assets, and how Apple, last of the PRISM 9, was made to testify before Congress for tax avoidance.

It's probably just a coincidence.

If necessary, a company executive, known as a “committing officer,” is given documents that guarantee immunity from civil actions resulting from the transfer of data.

Letters of marque (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque) of our day