DGDevin wrote:

Who figured the feds shouldn't need a court order to listen to your
phone calls or read your e-mails?

Governments have been monitoring enemy electronic communications since the
Recent Unplesantness when both Union and Confederate forces tapped the
telegraph lines of their opposition. Early on, we broke the Japanese "Purple
Code," and the British did the same with the "Enigma" project on German
codes.

Those who dismiss this project harken back to the day when the Secretary of
State said: "Gentelmen do not read each others mail" as he closed the State
Department's codebreaking office.