05.09.2013 - 21:39 [ Techdirt ]

Feds Beg NY Times, Pro Publica Not To Reveal That They‘ve Inserted Backdoors Into Internet Encryption

We already wrote about the latest reports coming out of the Snowden leaks, concerning how the NSA and GCHQ have effectively backdoored their way into breaking various encryption schemes by writing the standards themselves and recruiting internal spies within companies to covertly inject backdoors. The reporting on these documents was done jointly by The Guardian, the NY Times and Pro Publica. However, the NY Times coverage has one interesting tidbit