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September 6, 2013

Report: NSA can crack most online encryption

  • Leaked documents say the agency has bypassed or altogether cracked much of the digital encryption used by businesses and everyday Web users.
    • By JACK GILLUM
    Associated Press

    WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency, working with the British government, has secretly been unraveling encryption technology that billions of Internet users rely upon to keep their electronic messages and confidential data safe from prying eyes, according to published reports Thursday based on internal U.S. government documents.

    The NSA has bypassed or altogether cracked much of the digital encryption used by businesses and everyday Web users, according to reports in The New York Times, Britain's Guardian newspaper and the nonprofit news website ProPublica. The reports describe how the NSA invested billions of dollars since 2000 to make nearly everyone's secrets available for government consumption.


     
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