Brazil counters NSA spying with new secure email service

[Judi Lynn]

Brazil counters NSA spying with new secure email service
Oct 13 2013, 9:29pm CDT | by Gene Ryan Briones

In an effort to end the NSA's alleged espionage, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has ordered the Federal Data Processing Service (SERPRO) to work on a secure email service for the country's federal government.

President Rousseff's announcement follows her scathing speech at the United Nations assembly last month, where in she condemned the NSA's spying activities.

Brazil's 40th Chief of Staff has accused the U.S. agency of violating international law by spying on Brazil's citizens and industries, particularly Rousseff's official communications and the state-controlled, semi-public, Brazilian multinational energy corporation, Petrobras.

"We need more security on our messages to prevent possible espionage. This is the first step toward extending the privacy and inviolability of official posts," she said. The tough Brazilian president, the first woman to hold office,

Read more: http://www.i4u.com/2013/10/56328/brazil-counters-nsa-spying-new-secure-email-service#qGVdIXmQPU7lkP5W.99

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[bemildred]

1. Can we get accounts? They should start a privacy-protected cloud service too.

This could be a business plan.

[Demeter]

2. IT says they are working on one

Not that they have achieved one.

NSA has such a head start, and has so insidiously insinuated itself into everything, that we may need a separate internet, separate phone system, separate everything, and the telecommunications giants need to pay a death penalty for going along with them. And then, we need a new government, too.

[Paolo123]

3. Even then,

I would think that as much as I like Brazil and it's government that somewhere is someone who will take a $10 million payout from the NSA to secretly install their spying equipment.

[Demeter]

4. That's always a possibility

We have to get NSA to live up to its name: No Such Agency; for real and forever.