NSA has VPNs in Vulcan death grip--no, really, that's what they call it
(Ars):
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/nsa-has-vpns-in-vulcan-death-grip-no-really-thats-what-they-call-it/
"The National Security Agency's Office of Target Pursuit (OTP)
maintains a team of engineers dedicated to cracking the encrypted
traffic of virtual private networks (VPNs) and has developed tools
that could potentially uncloak the traffic in the majority of VPNs
used to secure traffic passing over the Internet today, according to
documents published this week by the German news magazine Der Speigel.
A slide deck from a presentation by a member of OTP's VPN Exploitation
Team, dated September 13, 2010, details the process the NSA used at
that time to attack VPNs--including tools with names drawn from Star
Trek and other bits of popular culture."
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Not really new, but confirmational. That's what intel agencies around
the world are paid to do -- crack codes.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
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