Internet Security Myths, Misinformation, NSA and encryption

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Internet security myths have gone through the roof recently. I even read recently an article on another site, I will not name because I prefer not to start a flame war, which took these myths and made them "facts." The most annoying thing was that the article had no background or references to evidence on the claims he made.

I'll look at some other points raised in this article as it will address some common facts VPN, Internet security myths and espionage myths floating around out there.

Internet Security Myths, misinformation and the truth about the NSA

MI6 can hack your accounts any time they want

say that MI6 can hack your account at any time, even when using a VPN, is wrong in many ways. First, there is no MI6. It is now known as SIS. In addition, the SIS does not work in this kind of security context. The work of computer security is the area of ​​GCHQ, as they state on their About page.

Now, can either of these groups hack your computer through your VPN, and know what you are doing in real time? Absolutely not. To quote an article by Senior Reporter Kim Zetter of Wired.com, in which she speaks with Edward Snowden on safety, Edward said:

encryption "-End to end mass surveillance makes impossible for level network level. "

What does the end to end encryption? A VPN service, of course. Especially as a IPVanish with its high safety standards, and not politics recording. The article goes on to talk about how end-to-end encryption makes it so the NSA and hackers are targeting specific people, rather than to conduct mass surveillance at their leisure.

For more encryption backup is secure, I turn to the security expert Bruce Schneier noted in a Wired article:

"regardless of the NSA. has his sleeves top-secret, the mathematics of cryptography will always be the safest part of any encryption system "

has the NSA or someone else, the Internet really encryption cracked?

You probably imagine a group of people in business suit bending over in front of a bank of computers, working hack encryption when you think of the NSA. You are wrong, they are really just a bunch of thieves. What really made the NSA to conduct mass surveillance is to steal security keys and make negotiations with suppliers to sabotage the security they were supposed to be giving you.

For more, I turn to militant digital rights Cory Doctorow in a short beep he sent back when all this new monitoring NSA broke

the NSA simply can not decrypt the 128-bit technology. What should be done? Steal key security and working with people who are supposed to have your best interests in mind to ensure mass surveillance on people who thought they were free.

One last quote on VPN, security, NSA, GCHQ and encryption

A final security expert, and NSA expert, I wanted to include had this to say:

"encryption works. strong cryptographic systems are correctly implemented one of the few things you can count on."

Who said that? Edward Snowden, a former NSA agent and now the most famous storyteller of the truth on the planet. This is when he spoke to The Guardian shortly after he came out with his testimony. You do not have to believe me if you do not want, but which is directly from the mouth of the man who seeks to end ethics mass surveillance.


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