NSA Winning War on Encryption

Friday, 06 September 2013 | by Pat's Picks

The NSA is winning the war on privacy. Using code-breaking computers that defeat encryption, “technical trickery, court orders and behind-the-scenes persuasion” the agency can read pretty much anything you do online, reports the New York Times this morning. That includes encryption guarding banking systems, securing emails, and protecting phone calls. As opposed to the documents revealed by Edward Snowden, which showed the scope of the NSA’s reach, this latest batch of documents shows “how the agency works to ensure that it is actually able to read the information it collects.”

SOURCE: New York Times