More Snowden documents have been reviewed by the New York Times, which this afternoon concluded that
<begin extract> The agency has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption, or digital scrambling, that guards global commerce and banking systems, protects sensitive data like trade secrets and medical records, and automatically secures the e-mails, Web searches, Internet chats and phone calls of Americans and others around the world, the documents show. <end extract> This is not very different from the standard informed conjectures about what the NSA and its counterparts elsewhere can do. It is important that the readers of airline magazines disabuse themselves of the notion that they can keep secrets from these agencies using off-the-shelf technology. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
