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CNET: Feds Put Heat On Web Firms For Master Encryption Keys

First time accepted submitter fsagx writes "The U.S. government has attempted to obtain the master encryption keys that Internet companies use to shield millions of users' private Web communications from eavesdropping. These demands for master encryption keys, which have not been disclosed previously, represent a technological escalation in the clandestine methods that the FBI and the National Security Agency employ when conducting electronic surveillance against Internet users."

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  1. Re:Dupe by TWiTfan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe we're in a loop like in that movie "Groundhog Day," where every day we wake up and learn the NSA are dicks all over again!

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  2. Re:Unencrypt this by slashmydots · · Score: 3, Funny

    You forgot to encrypt it. Okay, it's:
    lsdfoj240934ojfwnl;sdaglnkvasd08fvq2ut82js-9dvu8-9WJ34T'PWUD[-G9JWP4YUJ23049JT
    And the decryption key is "fuck the NSA" lol.

  3. those poor bastards by Thud457 · · Score: 3, Funny

    you've managed to make me feel sorry for the poor saps that have to spy all day on us

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  4. Re:Best available advice? by Thud457 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Talk to a lawyer

    great, now he has two problems.

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