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7/25/2013 3:44:20 AM
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NSA/FBI wants web encryption keys

[url]http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57595202-38/feds-put-heat-on-web-firms-for-master-encryption-keys/[/url] tl;dr When you use HTTP, everything your browser sends over the network is unencrypted; it is plain text which anyone can read if they are monitoring the link. When you use HTTPS, your browser and the web server encrypts plain text into ciphertext so if anyone is watching, all they see is gibberish. To decrypt the gibberish back to something that's readable, they need the [[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography]private[/url]] encryption key, which only the web server should have. If a third party, like the NSA or FBI, is able to get a copy of the key and is able to monitor the network, they can decrypt the data as well. Meaning, everything you transmit is now readable to them. Considering how much you rely on this technology, even unknowingly, this is something you should definitely be worried about.

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  • Wow, I am agreeing with Daz on something? Halt the -blam!-ing presses. There is a full blown assault on our constitutional rights. 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 10th. Those rights that limit the power of the government are undesirable to today's rulers. In their eyes the power does not belong to the people, it belongs to them. Yet you people wonder why some scream about tyranny and oppression. The recent bullshit with the NSA is exhibit -blam!-ing A. I hope some of you really open your eyes, the government is not our friend and never has been.

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