NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret files reveal

If President Obama wanted the NSA to quit storing phone metadata, he’d act now

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...a-to-quit-storing-phone-metadata-hed-act-now/

 

If the NSA, GCHQ, etc. didn't know about the Heartbleed vulnerability in advance, I'll guess they have a lot of people working feverishly right now.

 

Study Shows Flawed U.S. Encryption Standard Could Be Broken in Seconds
at: http://www.technologyreview.com/vie...cryption-standard-could-be-broken-in-seconds/

"If the NSA did have the keys to the backdoor in a random number generator it could break some encryption without trouble."

-- Tom

 

NSA Spied On Human Rights Groups, Says Snowden

 

Austria is one of the six countries the NSA is intercepting all of its telecommunications

 

See: Why The Conversation Should Be Required Viewing at the NSA
at: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertai...should-be-required-viewing-at-the-nsa/360213/

"Francis Ford Coppola's psychological thriller, which turns 40 today, may be the best exploration of the dangers of surveillance that pop culture has ever produced."

-- Tom

 

NSA monitors WiFi on US planes ‘in violation’ of privacy laws:
http://rt.com/usa/inflight-wfi-nsa-monitoring-548/

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/10/angela-merkel-denied-access-nsa-file

 

NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years

 

NSA denies report it exploited Heartbleed for years

 

It was interesting (re)reading this pre-Snowden March 2012 article: The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say).

 

NSA denied the gist of the March 2012 article mentioned in the last post.

 

Backbone taps + unencrypted (or MITM'd due to lack of certificate checks, etc) MTA<->MTA exchanges = ?

 

How the NSA shot itself in the foot by denying prior knowledge of Heartbleed vulnerability

 

Silicon Valley could force NSA reform, tomorrow. What's taking so long?.

-- Tom

 

Obama lets NSA use zero-day flaws given “clear national security” need

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...day-flaws-given-clear-national-security-need/

 

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/apr/14/guardian-washington-post-pulitzer-nsa-revelations

 

Edward Snowden defends decision to question Vladimir Putin on surveillance
http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ision-question-vladimir-putin-on-surveillance

 

From Government Surveillance and Internet Search Behavior (paper):

 

As Europe erupts over US spying, NSA chief says government must stop media.

-- Tom

 

Maths spying: The quandary of working for the spooks.

Note: Click on > Read full article at the above webpage

-- Tom

 

Heartbleed: Understanding When We Disclose Cyber Vulnerabilities (statement from White House)

 

Emoji: The ultimate NSA-proof method of communication.

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-- Tom

 

Codes that substitute symbols or images for words instead of letters are far more difficult to break. The character set becomes much larger. Analysis based on letter frequency becomes useless. Without knowing what the wordset used by the symbols is, it's nearly impossible to assign meanings to any of them, assuming that the images aren't so simple as to make it obvious.

 

Wow, hieroglyphics

Learning a new language seems like overkill. And by the time I could use it well, so could the NSA etc