The NSA 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 New York Times reports
The agency,
according to documents provided to The Times and ProPublica by Edward J.
Snowden and interviews with industry officials:
Deployed
custom-built, superfast computers to break codes
Collaborated
with technology companies in the United States and abroad to build in back doors
Coerced
some companies into handing over their master encryption keys or building in a
back door
Covertly
introduced weaknesses into the encryption standards followed by hardware and
software developers, or altered their software or hardware.
Worked with
chipmakers to insert back doors or by exploiting security flaws
Had
partnerships with major telecommunications carriers
Had access
to Microsoft’s most popular services, including Outlook e-mail, Skype Internet
phone calls and chats, and SkyDrive, the company’s cloud storage service.
Cracked
enryptions of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL); virtual private networks (VPNs), and
the protection used on 4G smartphones
Accessed
the world’s fiber optic cables and Internet hubs
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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