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Friday, September 6, 2013

NSA and British intel had interest in decryption

More documents about the NSA revealed that they may have had interest in breaking encryption to gain access to information from the Internet, such as e-mails, medical records and banking info.

GCHQ (British intelligence) also may had interest in decrypting info on the web as well.

Many people use encryption to protect information for a good reason: privacy. Also this is done to deter cyber-criminals who may use sensitive info for their own purposes.

So this may prove that even with encryption, there's not much escape from the NSA, providing they have the effective back-door means to access such encrypted info.

TheGuardian - Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security