A thread for apologies from those who said I was nuts about the NSA

[PrestonLocke]

91. Yes and yes

According to the NSA's 2013 budget requests released by the NY Times:

"The SIGINT Enabling Project actively engages the USA and foregin IT industries to covertly influence and/or overtly leverage their commercial products' designs. These design changes make the sysetms in question exploitable through SIGINT collection (e.g. Endpoint, MidPoint, etc.) with foreknowledge of the modification. To the consumer and other adversaries, however, the systems' security remains intact. In this way, the SIGINT Enabling approach uses commercial technology and insight to manage the increasing cost and technical challenges of discovering and successfully exploiting systems of interest within the ever-more integrated ans security-focused global communications environment."

The NSA is working with vendors and developers to create security vulnerabilities.
Personally, this makes me think more of the ever-growing cloud and web-based services than encrypted hd partitions and pgp emails.

Only compile pre-1992 code on a pre-1992 compiler!