{"id":86245,"date":"2013-09-06T00:34:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T22:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=86245"},"modified":"2013-09-06T08:54:09","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T06:54:09","slug":"most-internet-encryption-cracked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/86245-most-internet-encryption-cracked.html","title":{"rendered":"Most Internet encryption cracked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"National Security Agency\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/538519-National-Security-Agency-NSA\">National Security Agency<\/a> has secretly been unraveling encryption technology used worldwide to keep information safe on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>A new report by The New York Times, Britain&#8217;s Guardian newspaper and the website ProPublica describes how the NSA invested billions of dollars since 2000 to make nearly everyone&#8217;s secrets available for government consumption. It says the agency built powerful supercomputers to break encryption codes.<\/p>\n<p>The revelations stem from documents leaked by former NSA contractor <a title=\"Edward Snowden\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/538513-Edward-Snowden\">Edward Snowden<\/a> earlier this year. Those same documents this summer showed an effort by the U.S. government to gather and analyze all sorts of electronic data.<\/p>\n<p>The revelations prompted a debate about the proper balance between civil liberties and security. President <a title=\"Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/370720-Barack-Obama\">Barack Obama<\/a> called the debate &#8220;healthy for our democracy&#8221; but criticized the leaks.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More security news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/86067-hawks-investigating-city-of-joburg-billing-security-issue.html\">Hawks investigating City of Joburg billing security issue<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/86031-sa-government-requests-user-info-from-facebook-google.html\">SA government requests user info from Facebook, Google<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/86029-manning-files-for-presidential-pardon.html\">Manning files for presidential pardon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Security Agency has secretly been unraveling encryption technology used worldwide to keep information safe on the Internet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":77034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6298,35,917,21313],"class_list":["post-86245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-encryption","tag-headline","tag-internet-2","tag-rsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86261,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86245\/revisions\/86261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}