New security flaw called FREAK is a newly-discovered flaw in SSL/TLS, the technology which is supposed to secure your communications across the net. In the 1990s, the US government tried to prevent products being sold overseas if they featured strong encryption. They said that export-grade (in other words, weak) encryption was alright though though. Stronger cryptography algorithms were banned from export, and classified as weapons of war. The weak algorithms can still be found out there in different products, although they are typically disabled by default.”]
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