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1) Am I hitting a paywall or is the article really only 4 paragraphs long, amounting to a directly-relayed press release?

2) Is it more likely that this is funded by the NSA, or instead that the NSA has had something similar for decades and this is a ploughsare-type filtration of techniques into the private sector?

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What does the phrase "ploughsare-type filtration of techniques into the private sector" mean?

I'm thinking it's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swords_to_ploughshares

1) Yes

2) No, ploughsare filtration techniques seem to go in reverse like self driving cars.

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