NSA Meddling May Have Turned The Encryption Software Industry Into A Massive Consumer Fraud

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Is "file encryption" a hoax?

RSA, the famed encryption company with 'a long history of championing privacy and security' accepted $10 million from the NSA to weaken encryption standards - providing NSA with a 'backdoor' into a globe of encrypted files.

So are promises made by encryption software sellers a joke?


Earlier this year, the Snowden leaks revealed how the NSA was effectively infiltrating crypto standards efforts to take control of them and make sure that backdoors or other weaknesses were installed. Many in the crypto community reacted angrily to this, and began to rethink how they interact with the feds. However, Reuters has just dropped a bombshell into all of this, as it has revealed that not only did the NSA purposefully weaken crypto, it then paid famed crypto provider RSA $10 million to push the weakened crypto, making it a de facto standard.

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