Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys | Politics and Law - CNET News
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The U.S. government has attempted to obtain the master encryption keys that Internet companies use to shield millions of users’ private Web communications from eavesdropping.
These demands for master encryption keys, which have not been disclosed previously, represent a technological escalation in the clandestine methods that the FBI and the National Security Agency employ when conducting electronic surveillance against Internet users.
commentaire de @reichenstein:
The Web revolution has come full circle. We started with the storm on the Bastille and now Napoleon crowned himself
#NSA #surveillance #ssl