US and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied
upon by
hundreds of millions of people to protect the privacy of their personal data, online transactions and
emails, according to top - secret documents revealed by former contractor Edward Snowden.
Imagine the scene: your average bag - carrier,
upon firing up the office computer on a Monday morning, finds five
hundred identical
emails from constituents urging the MP to write to the Foreign Secretary on cabbage farming in outer Patagonia will naturally sigh and get on with it.