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FBI pushes for surveillance backdoors in Web 2.0 tools - 0 views

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fbi surveillance cyberattack 2011 writeabout writeatlockergnome privacy spying monitoring

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  • John Lemke on 01 Mar 11
     
    The FBI pushed Thursday for more built-in backdoors for online communication, but beat a hasty retreat from its earlier proposal to require providers of encrypted communications services to include a backdoor for law enforcement wiretaps. LUMPY HAS NOTES BELOW ties in with securirty and cyber attack.. use it as excuse
John Lemke

UK prime minister wants backdoors into messaging apps or he'll ban them | Ars Technica - 0 views

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  • He said the Paris attacks, including the one last week on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, underscored the need for greater access.
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      John Lemke on 03 Feb 15
       
      Did they use such encryption in the attack? Would they have been caught even if encryption were not being used? what is up with that, we didn't do any better at catching thugs when they used CBs and many thugs are no smart enough to use encryption and still go uncaught.
John Lemke

NSA paid $10 Million bribe to RSA Security for Keeping Encryption Weak - 0 views

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2013 nsa bribe RSA backdoor security yourrights privacy spying surveillance INN 2013.12.23

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  • According to an exclusive report published by Reuters, there is a secret deal between the NSA and respected encryption company RSA to implement a flawed security standard as the default protocol in its products.
  • Earlier Edward Snowden leaks had revealed that the NSA created a flawed random number generation system (Dual_EC_DRBG), Dual Elliptic Curve, which RSA used in its Bsafe security tool and now Snowden has revealed that RSA received $10 million from NSA for keeping Encryption Weak. So, anyone who knows the right numbers used in Random number generator program, can decipher the resulting cryptotext easily.
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