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

Posted by timothy on from the our-public-servants dept.

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."

2 of 148 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Dupe by 1s44c · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's not that I find the word niggers offensive, it's just that it's a very bad description for the NSA. That word doesn't express the wrong they have done and continue to do, all it does is express your emotions towards them.

  2. Re:Dupe by 1s44c · · Score: -1, Troll

    I LOL at the politically correct mentality of those who modded my sensible reply to the misuse of a cuss word to -1 Troll.