Snowden yet again has revealed ways that the US and UK have access to our data but now they are not recording emails or phone calls but actually breaking into securely encrypted data.He properly said that "some internet companies provided the agencies backdoor access to their security systems", this cost the NSA around $250m (£160). Its code name is Bullrun after the battle known as First Manassas, according to the documents published by the guardian with co-operation from New York Times and ProPublica. Whereas its equal in Britain is called Edgehill, adter the first battle of the English civil war.
They broke encryption used to store emails, banking and medical records of hundreds of millions of people safely to prevent third party groups from accessing this fragile information. The main focus of the operation was to break the encryption in 4G smartphones, email, online shopping and remote business communication networks. These methods are mostly used by internet services such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo.
The NSA was so dedicated to breaking this encryption they had supercomputers built for this single purpose just to break in and get hold of our private information. Other methods reported by the New York Times reports used were "technical trickery, court orders and behind-the-scenes persuasion to undermine the major tools protecting the privacy of everyday communications".
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So Snowden has come out of his shell yet again to deliver the truth which is the purpose of this very blog. For me it is horrifying that even encryption is not a warning sign for the government that people do not want this information to be read by anyone out of their knowledge but now an uncrackable code has been invented called quantum cryptography and is now being implemented on a large scale to make it available for many people to use this method.
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