The days of thinking your privacy is safeguarded on the Internet are long gone, so don’t ever believe for one moment that you’re protected, because it is only an illusion at this point. According to a report from the New York Times, the US National Security Agency (NSA) — along with UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) — is highly capable of cracking any encryption used on the web to protect sensitive data such as your regular instant messenger messages, emails, medical records, and web searches.
Aside from that, the NSA invested billions into supercomputers that are able to literally crack the encryption codes they couldn’t get via other ways. More specifically, it is said the NSA researched heavily into cracking SSL/HTTPS, VPNs, and encryption used in 4G wireless data connections. There is no indication that NSA has yet found a master key to break all SSL/HTTPS/VPN/4G/etc
The National Surveillance Agency’s ability to crack sensitive information comes as no surprise, as according to recent reports, $11 billion was recently spent on bolstering the ability to spy on encrypted messages from priority targets around the globe. This was part of a $52 billion black budget the government used to fund its surveillance capability, among other things.
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Aside from that, the NSA invested billions into supercomputers that are able to literally crack the encryption codes they couldn’t get via other ways. More specifically, it is said the NSA researched heavily into cracking SSL/HTTPS, VPNs, and encryption used in 4G wireless data connections. There is no indication that NSA has yet found a master key to break all SSL/HTTPS/VPN/4G/etc
The National Surveillance Agency’s ability to crack sensitive information comes as no surprise, as according to recent reports, $11 billion was recently spent on bolstering the ability to spy on encrypted messages from priority targets around the globe. This was part of a $52 billion black budget the government used to fund its surveillance capability, among other things.
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