> "Intelligence officials asked The Times and ProPublica not to publish this article, saying that it might prompt foreign targets to switch to new forms of encryption or communications that would be harder to collect or read. The news organizations removed some specific facts but decided to publish the article because of the value of a public debate about government actions that weaken the most powerful tools for protecting the privacy of Americans and others."
NYT, the Guardian, etc do have access to these details, but chose not to publish them.
They say that they were asked not to publish at all, but did so anyway and chose to remove some specific facts. I don't understand how you get from that to concluding that they know (and are suppressing) the particular vulnerabilities that the NSA is exploiting.
> "Intelligence officials asked The Times and ProPublica not to publish this article, saying that it might prompt foreign targets to switch to new forms of encryption or communications that would be harder to collect or read. The news organizations removed some specific facts but decided to publish the article because of the value of a public debate about government actions that weaken the most powerful tools for protecting the privacy of Americans and others."
NYT, the Guardian, etc do have access to these details, but chose not to publish them.