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 The company uses outdated Web encryption, which makes users’ communications vulnerable to the National Security Agency.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.

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Secret documents describing the National Security Agency’s surveillance apparatus have highlighted vulnerabilities in outdated Web encryption used by Facebook and a handful of other U.S. companies.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…

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