
Facebook’s outmoded Web crypto opens door to NSA spying
A Facebook data center. The company uses outdated Web encryption, which makes users’ communications vulnerable to the National Security Agency. But the social network is planning to upgrade.
(Credit:
Facebook)
Secret documents describing the National Security Agency’s surveillance apparatus have highlighted vulnerabilities in outdated Web encryption used by Facebook and a handful of other U.S. companies.
Documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden confirm that the NSA taps into fiber optic cables “upstream” from Internet companies and vacuums up e-mail and other data…
Read the original: Facebook’s outmoded Web crypto opens door to NSA spying
Recent Comments