{"id":14947,"date":"2013-09-05T18:02:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T01:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=14947"},"modified":"2013-09-05T18:02:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T01:02:13","slug":"the-nsas-other-shoe-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/the-nsas-other-shoe-drops\/","title":{"rendered":"The NSA’s other shoe drops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alas (but no surprise), the rumor that’s been buzzing around the ‘Net ever since Edward Snowden’s NSA documents began their slow leak has turned out to be true. The NSA has cracked the encryption<\/a> on which the Internet thrives.<\/p>\n

All those assurances from our banks, insurance companies, doctors, credit card companies, etc. that our data is safe and secure? Blooey.<\/p>\n

Maybe “cracking” isn’t quite the right term. Apparently, they haven’t really gotten any great master key. Not even to one form of encryption (and there are many forms). This isn’t Bletchley Park and the Enigma machine<\/a>. Nothing so grand. Simply tawdry. <\/p>\n

If the news stories are correct, the NSA’s methods consist of brute-force attacks (which, correct me if I’m wrong, techies) are used only in individual cases where they’ve really got motive to snoop and — no surprise — backdoors willingly provided by tech companies.<\/p>\n

There are so many non-surprises here. <\/p>\n

Collaborating companies named in the documents include Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and Hotmail. No doubt only the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n

I hope every one of those companies, and any others, pay and pay and pay and pay for their betrayal, not only the betrayal of their users, but as Bruce Schneier says, their part in what amounts to an all-out attack on the Internet. They have sold the Internet for the modern equivalent of 30 pieces of silver. May their end be as miserable and gruesome as that of the man who inspired them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read the article (or this one<\/a> or this one<\/a>) and weep.<\/p>\n

But as you weep, notice<\/i>. It’s another non-surprise. But notice what the NSA calls us all — calls every user of online banking, every poor fool who trusted his medical records to some online provider, everyone who believed the word of Internet corporations. They call us “adversaries.” <\/p>\n

Adversaries.<\/p>\n

Adversaries.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

A few weeks back when I said the federal government (particularly its UberGovernment) had declared war on us, I could have been exaggerating. Just being dramatic.<\/p>\n

But no more. The UberGovernment has declared each and every one of us to be its adversaries. Just because we want confidential information kept confidential. Just because we want privacy. Just because we don’t want Big Brother — or any other criminal — peering over our shoulders, into our bank accounts, or into the space between our doctor and us.<\/p>\n

I hope to hell we’re worthy ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alas (but no surprise), the rumor that’s been buzzing around the ‘Net ever since Edward Snowden’s NSA documents began their slow leak has turned out to be true. The NSA has cracked the encryption on which the Internet thrives. All those assurances from our banks, insurance companies, doctors, credit card companies, etc. that our data is safe and secure? Blooey. Maybe “cracking” isn’t quite the right term. Apparently, they haven’t really gotten any great master key. Not even to one form of encryption (and there are many forms). This isn’t Bletchley Park and the Enigma machine. Nothing so grand. Simply…<\/p>\n

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