﻿ 'The NSA has worked to make widely used technology less
secure' | ZDNet   Summary: Disclosures about the U.S.
intelligence agency's encryption-busting activities are making
many people question everything about digital security.  In
cyber security, there are white hats and black hats.  Can hats
be gray, too?  That's the question in my mind as new reports
from The Guardian, The New York Times and ProPublica reveal that
the National Security Agency of the United States
"has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption, or digital
scrambling, that guards global commerce and banking systems,
protects sensitive data like trade secrets and medical records,
and automatically secures the e-mails, Web searches, Internet
chats and phone calls of Americans and others around the world."
To say this news is troubling is a massive understatement,
regardless of one's personal politics. (If there is any coffee
left in your morning pot, now's the time to have another pour.)
This weekend, The New Yorker's Matt Buchanan b