<div dir="ltr"><div><div>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:<br><a href="http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/11/securitymatters_1115">http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/11/securitymatters_1115</a><br>
</div><br></div>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.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Chris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greenbean@riseup.net" target="_blank">greenbean@riseup.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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This article contains leaked information about the NSA's BULLRUN
project<br>
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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"."</span>
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security" target="_blank">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security</a><br>
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