The bolding is mine, because if in fact the agency did crack the encryption schemes used for bank transactions (the Times is somewhat unclear on that point), then in doing so it may have solved a math ...

Microsoft worked with the National Security Agency and the FBI to provide the agencies with access the Skype video calls, Outlook web chats and emails and information in their cloud-based service, ...

When we published our comprehensive guide to hiding your online activity from the NSA, we suggested you give Microsoft (and other big tech companies) a wide berth if your goal was privacy protection.

Asthe public and congressional debate over the National Security Administration’s (NSA) collection of data under the Patriot Act has raged, so, too, have officials’ concerns over terrorists’ ...

The government is using national security as a “smokescreen” to refuse to disclose how many technical capability notices (TCNs) it has issued to telecoms and internet companies to secretly gain access ...

Introduction Envision our digital world as a sprawling universe filled with glittering constellations of encrypted data, each packet of information ...