Newly published documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveal that the National Security Agency has secretly developed various methods of circumventing widely used Internet commercial encryption technologies, including HTTPS and SSL, which are used to secure anything from banking transactions to email services
The NSA uses a wide range of ways to circumvent web encryption, include using supercomputers to brute-force the intercepted communications, pressuring vendors to install backdoors behind the scenes, obtain encryption keys by hacking into corporate servers, and even manipulating processes to set international encryptions standards. Read more…
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