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http://www.newschannel5.com/story/23359858/nsa-has-cracked-encryption-protecting-your-bank-account-gmail-and-smartphone

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Encryption techniques used by online banks, email providers, and many other sensitive Internet services to keep your personal data private and secure are no match for the National Security Agency and British surveillance authorities, according to new reports from The New York Times, ProPublica, and The Guardian. The revelations are the latest to come from a trove of documents supplied by fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Documents labeled "top secret" show that HTTPS and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), encryption technologies used across the Web to keep transactions protected from snoops of all kinds, have been cracked by government-owned supercomputers. Through their decryption program, codenamed "Bullrun," NSA and U.K. counterpart GCHQ have also compromised virtual private networks (VPNs) and encryption used to protect 4G wireless signals.
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