US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet

[Regulith]

Do we really not have a thread about this yet? I must have missed it somewhere, right? Because daaaamn.

tl;dr -- The NSA and GCHQ used brute force and backdoors placed with the help of the technology companies themselves to crack data encryption used on communications, banking, and medical records that were guaranteed to be kept private from them.

Other unsettling matters include ordinary internet customers being referred to as "adversaries" in official documents; undercover agents working at telecommunications companies; code-names for the project referring to civil wars, implying the general public is the enemy; and "classified briefings between the agencies celebrating their success at 'defeating network security and privacy'".

Yikes.

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[Sentry]

Daaaamn.

[Aripany]

This is a big deal, but you could've at least come up with a new title before copying it off reddit or some other generic site.

[Regulith]

This is a big deal, but you could've at least come up with a new title before copying it off reddit or some other generic site.

It's the title of the article

The article is the topic

[Aripany]

I'm not here to start a debate or anything, I wholeheartedly agree that these spy agencies are bad any way you look at it, but regurgitating info from sites like reddit isn't going to help. The article is titled "NSA and GCHQ unlock privacy and security on the internet". The reddit post has the same title as this. :/

[Regulith]

I'm not here to start a debate or anything, I wholeheartedly agree that these spy agencies are bad any way you look at it, but regurgitating info from sites like reddit isn't going to help.

Everything I've posted is directly from the article, I don't know where you're getting this reddit business

The article is titled "NSA and GCHQ unlock privacy and security on the internet".

You're right, right now it is, but it wasn't about 30 minutes ago, I didn't even know the title had changed until you brought it up because I've had it open for over an hour

The reddit post has the same title as this. :/

Again, because that was the title of the article until very recently

[Sentry]

Quit loving arguing over a title.

[Harm94]

This stuff again? I wonder what excuse the pro-nsa side will come up with this time.

[Jerkface]

I... why?  Why would they even... eh?

[Aripany]

Understood. Apologies for coming off the way I did.