re: SIGINT is not equivalent to a private email account.

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NOW, Russia also knows. Which means that they are trashing all of their current means of communications and we will no longer be able to eavesdrop on their secret conversations.

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Yep. I think this is a point that's being lost in all this. One of the primary reasons this stuff stays secret is not because of the content, but because revealing it would reveal what they call "sources and methods." Some of our sources and methods took years to develop and millions (if not billions) of dollars.

Now the Russians know who was being eavesdropped on and how. As a result, you can bet they are in the process of sweeping everything.