PRIVACY : UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT : INFORMATION LEAKS : ESPIONAGE AND SURVEILLANCE : SPYS AND SPYING: N.S.A. Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web

[David P. Dillard]

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PRIVACY :

UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT :

INFORMATION LEAKS :

ESPIONAGE AND SURVEILLANCE :

SPYS AND SPYING:

N.S.A. Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web

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N.S.A. Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web


By NICOLE PERLROTH, JEFF LARSON and SCOTT SHANE

Published: September 5, 2013

New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/
nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html

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A shorter URL for the above link:

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http://tinyurl.com/m9chca6

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The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war on
encryption, using supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders and
behind-the-scenes persuasion to undermine the major tools protecting the
privacy of everyday communications in the Internet age, according to newly
disclosed documents.

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The agency has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption, or digital
scrambling, that guards global commerce and banking systems, protects
sensitive data like trade secrets and medical records, and automatically
secures the e-mails, Web searches, Internet chats and phone calls of
Americans and others around the world, the documents show.

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Many users assume or have been assured by Internet companies that their
data is safe from prying eyes, including those of the government, and the
N.S.A. wants to keep it that way. The agency treats its recent successes
in deciphering protected information as among its most closely guarded
secrets, restricted to those cleared for a highly classified program
code-named Bullrun, according to the documents, provided by Edward J.
Snowden, the former N.S.A. contractor.

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Beginning in 2000, as encryption tools were gradually blanketing the Web,
the N.S.A. invested billions of dollars in a clandestine campaign to
preserve its ability to eavesdrop. Having lost a public battle in the
1990s to insert its own back door in all encryption, it set out to
accomplish the same goal by stealth.

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The agency, according to the documents and interviews with industry
officials, deployed custom-built, superfast computers to break codes, and
began collaborating with technology companies in the United States and
abroad to build entry points into their products. The documents do not
identify which companies have participated.

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