Internet Insecurity: NSA Cracks “The Two Leading” Encryption Chips

Download this post...On September 5, 2013, The Guardian, the New York Times andProPublica jointly reported — based on documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden — that the National Security Agency had compromised some of the encryption that is most commonly used to secure internet transactions. The NYT explained that NSA “has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption, or digital scrambling, that...