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The general in charge of the US Air Force’s long-range nuclear missiles has been sacked due to “loss of trust and confidence”, officials have said. The Air Force said Maj Gen Michael Carey’s removal was for “behaviour during a temporary duty assignment”. The sacking was not linked to the operation of the nuclear arsenal, which […]
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RSA believes one of its algorithms may be compromised RSA, the internet security firm, has warned customers not to use one of its own encryption algorithms after fears it can be unlocked by the US National Security Agency (NSA). In an advisory note to its developer customers, RSA said that a default algorithm in one […]
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While the investing community this morning is focused squarely on the very disappointing iPhone 5 relaunch and the lack of a cemented China Mobile deal, which has resulted in a $20 billion loss in market cap in early trading for thesecond most widely held hedge fund stock, a thing that we find more curious in the […]
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Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 09/09/2013 13:35 -0400 Should MSFT split up After reading an interesting article in the New Scientist, How NSA weakens encryption to access internet traffic, I was brought to mind a piece that I wrote to address the single most powerful tool in the NSA’s arsenal – the blatant ignorance of the common tech enduser. I […]
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Edward Snowden has revealed new information concerning the cryptographic capabilities of the NSA and GCHQ (TheGuardian, ProRepublica, leaking documents…). The CryptoGirl was bound to look into that topic 😉 Let’s go straight to the point and answer simple questions. Is cryptography unsecure? No, I don’t think so. Basically, cryptography is maths (prime numbers, finite fields, polynomials…), and […]
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Six years ago, two Microsoft cryptography researchers discovered some weirdness in an obscure cryptography standard authored by the National Security Agency. There was a bug in a government-standard random number generator that could be used to encrypt data. The researchers, Dan Shumow and Niels Ferguson, found that the number generator appeared to have been built with […]
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Two months ago, when we reported that the NSA has successfully inserted illegal access protocols into the Android OS, thus granting it back door access into nearly three quarters of all cell phones, the news was met with skepticism and resistance: how could an open-sourced architecture be so frail and open to penetration was the most common […]
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UK mobile providers, including O2 and its reseller GiffGaff, areblocking commercial VPN providers that help to secure sensitive communications from criminals, hackers and government spies. In particular, O2/GiffGaff block IPREDator, my favorite VPN service. The carriers claim that because these services could be use to bypass their Internet censorship tools — switched on by default, a regime […]
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(see story here) “The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” — John Gilmore If your employer or corrupt, undemocratic, dictator-based government uses a filtering service such as Secure Computing’s SmartFilter to block access to BoingBoing.net — or anything else online — you can try the following workarounds: Distributed BoingBoing mirrors everything on BoingBoing.net at random […]
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US and UK intelligence have reportedly cracked the encryption codes protecting the emails, banking and medical records of hundreds of millions of people. Disclosures by leaker Edward Snowden allege the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the UK’s GCHQ successfully decoded key online security protocols. They suggest some internet companies provided the agencies backdoor access […]
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