Deeley’s team couldn’t help but admire the mastery involved. All the encryption gear in the world would not have kept the Soviets from reading the embassy’s messages. The Soviets had found a way to collect each and every keystroke before anyone had a chance to scramble them. It was masterful work, and a lesson the NSA would never forget. Years later, the NSA would turn the same trick on iPhones, computers, and on America’s biggest technology companies, capturing data as it flowed between Google and Yahoo’s data centers in unencrypted form.
