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Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA’s War on Internet Security – Huffington Post

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Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security
Huffington Post
US and British intelligence agencies undertake every effort imaginable to crack all types of encrypted Internet communication. The cloud, it seems, is full of holes. The good news: New Snowden documents show that some forms of encryption still cause …
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Tor de farce: NSA fails to decrypt anonymised networkThe Register
NSA Docs Reveal Spy-Proof Encryption ToolsPC Magazine
WhoWhatWhy –Wall St. Cheat Sheet
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Tor, TrueCrypt, Tails topped the NSA’s ‘most wanted’ list in 2012

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Three out of three? That could be the score for the U.S. National Security Agency’s cryptographic “most wanted” list of 2012.

In January 2012, it saw Internet traffic anonymizing tool Tor (The Onion Router), Linux distribution Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) and disk encryption system TrueCrypt as the biggest threats to its ability to intercept Internet traffic and interpret other information it acquires.

Since then, flaws have been found in Tor and the FBI has unmasked Tor users and a vulnerability was found in Tails allowing attackers to determine users’ IP addresses.

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EU group: NSA’s ‘balance’ of security, privacy in surveillance sucks – Network World

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EU group: NSA's 'balance' of security, privacy in surveillance sucks
Network World
The technologies featured and assessed are: the use of a cable splitter off a fiber optic backbone; the use of 'Phantom Viewer' software (pdf); the use of social networking analysis and the use of 'Finspy' equipment installed on targeted computers.

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NSA’s Cyberwarfare Program Could Start Wars, Wired Says – Newsweek

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NSA's Cyberwarfare Program Could Start Wars, Wired Says
Newsweek
According to the article's author, longtime intelligence journalist James Bamford, the NSA deploys a cyberwarfare program, known as MonsterMind, that is designed to “constantly be on the lookout for traffic patterns indicating known or suspected [cyber …
NSA cyberwarfare could pick the wrong targets, Snowden saysFox News
NSA planned automated cyberwarfare programChristian Science Monitor
Planned US cyber warfare program could hurt innocent countries: SnowdenReuters
PC Magazine –InfoWorld
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