http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1 The Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world’s communications. Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital “pocket litter.” The mammoth Bluffdale center will have another important and far more secret role that until now has gone unrevealed. It is also critical for breaking codes. The NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to break unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users. The upshot, according to a former NSA official: “Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.”