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34. NSA - Nobody's Secure Anymore

Fri Sep 6, 2013, 09:09 AM

Sep 2013

9/6/13 How the NSA Made Sure It Can Decrypt Your Online Communication

In one of the more remarkable and alarming revelations to come from the documents leaked to the press by Edward Snowden, a joint report from The New York Times, ProPublica, and The Guardian suggests that the NSA works with internet companies to add vulnerabilities to secure network traffic — and may be able to broadly decrypt online communications.

A less technical summary: the government has apparently introduced and/or pried open the online security systems that ensure privacy online. For privacy advocates, this is the worst-case scenario, which may be in part why The Times reports that the government asked they not publish the report. (The partner organizations "removed some specific facts.&quot

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