NSA Breaks Data Encryption, Tech Firms Break Trust
| Richard Adhikari 09/07/13 5:00 AM PT | |
 | News that the U.S. National Security Agency has worked steadily for at least the past decade to systematically undermine security has sparked an uproar on the Internet. The agency has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption used to protect global commerce and banking systems, medical records and other sensitive data, and the communications of Americans and others, according to a report published in ProPublica. It apparently also has worked with high-tech companies in the U.S. and abroad to introduce backdoors into commercial encryption products, and weakened the international encryption standards adhered to by developers worldwide. [See Full Story] |
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