The New York Times and ProPublica report says the NSA has cracked much of the encryption that protects global commerce, banking, trade secrets. The report cites documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The agency spends more than US$250 million a year on its Sigint Enabling Project, the report says. British intelligence agency GCHQ, likely working with the NSA, has been attempting to hack into the protected traffic at Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft’s Hotmail, it says.”]
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