[HacktionLab] BULLRUN & NSA. An Interesting Read

[Martin (Crypt)]

I'm just amazed people are supprised at all about this.  We've had the NSA
insert a backdoor into windows, and we had several articles as far back as
2007, including this:
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/11/securitymatters_1115

All point to this kind of activity, so it should come as no supprise
really.  It all adds up to yet another reason to use open standards and
open source software.  This isn't a perfect solution to protect yourself,
but its a lot better than commercial packages where the NSA can easily
influence the developers to put the backdoors in.  In an open development
community this is a lot harder.



On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Chris <greenbean at riseup.net> wrote:

>  This article contains leaked information about the NSA's BULLRUN project
>
> "  two facts must remain top secret: that NSA makes modifications to
> commercial encryption software and devices "to make them exploitable", and
> that NSA "obtains cryptographic details of commercial cryptographic
> information security systems through industry relationships"."
>
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security
>
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