Warrantless Surveillance <link>
NSA warrantless surveillance (2001–07)
The flap over Snowden’s leaks, as if this is something new, isn’t new news.
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Back-door software portals – old news
Good Job Guardian! However, The “Crypto Wars” started in the mid 1990’s. This revelation shouldn’t be a surprise. It is not a new thing.
The first clue was a big flap that developed when the government had a major legal fight over export restriction on companies that developed the first 128 bit encryption programs. The government insisted on access to a backdoor portal. The issue went dark, until now.
A history white paper explains –