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September 7, 2013 08:00 am GMT
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NSA Code-Cracking Puts Google Under Fire
Disclosures that the U.S. National Security Agency can crack codes protecting the online traffic of the world’s largest Internet companies will inflict more damage than earlier reports of complicity in government spying, according to technology and intelligence specialists.
The agency has fulfilled a decades-long quest to break the encryption of email, online purchases, electronic medical records and other Web activities, the New York Times, the U.K.’s Guardian and ProPublica reported yesterday. The NSA also has been given access to — or found ways to enter — databases of major U.S. Internet companies operating the most popular email and social-media platforms, the news organizations reported. Read more...
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