NSA decryption revelations 'provide roadmap' to adversaries, US warns

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

NSA decryption revelations 'provide roadmap' to adversaries, US warns

Office of the director of national intelligence also suggests stories
published by the Guardian and New York Times are 'not news'

James Ball
theguardian.com, Friday 6 September 2013 18.27 BS

The Obama administration has responded to revelations on the NSA's successes in defeating online security and privacy published on Thursday by the Guardian, New York Times and ProPublica.

In a statement issued on Friday, the office of the director of national intelligence (ODNI), which oversees the US's intelligence agencies, suggested the stories, simultaneously published on the front pages of the New York Times and Guardian, were "not news", but nonetheless provided a "road map … to our adversaries".

At the core of the story, based on reporting from dozens of top-secret documents relating to encryption passed to the Guardian by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, were efforts by the NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ to place "backdoors" in online security, and to undermine internationals standards.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/06/nsa-encryption-revelations-roadmap-us

[cantbeserious]

1. A New Motto For The Age - Is Your Backdoor Locked

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[longship]

3. I have no back door to be unlocked or locked.

All one has to do is to use open source software and one can be reasonably sure that there are no back doors. If one is paranoid enough one could install only from known secure source code sites -- those associated with their respective projects.

But even if one doesn't do that, if one wants security one certainly should not opt for proprietary software where there's no hope to know what's hidden inside.

If security is important to you, open source is your only choice. It at least has the ability for peer review of its security. And for the major projects (OS kernel, Web Browser, GUI systems, server software, etc.) there are thousands of eyes on the source code to insure that it's secure.

It really is the only path that has any prospect of a claim to security.

[cantbeserious]

4. Have Used The Linux Operating System - Still Don't Feel Protected Satisfactorily

eom

[JustanAngel]

5. Open Source

How do I get it?

[bemildred]

6. Google Ubuntu. Best for newbies. nt

[Reiyuki]

2. NSA has made it clear that EVERYONE is their adversary (nt)