Revealed: The NSA’s Secret Campaign to Crack, Undermine Internet Security
Found on Pro Publica on Friday, 06 September 2013
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.
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 articles should contain every single detail. The NSA and GCHQ have done nothing to deserve any trust and people should now which methods are reliable in order to protect their privacy from abuse. From now on, new encryption standards made in the US or UK will have a hard time.