NSA and GCHQ unlock encryption used to protect emails, banking and medical records • $250m-a-year US program works covertly with tech companies to insert weaknesses into products • Security experts say programs ‘undermine the fabric of the internet’


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US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet

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    Through covert partnerships with tech companies, the spy agencies have inserted secret vulnerabilities into encryption software. Photograph: Kacper Pempel/Reuters

    US and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions of people to protect the privacy of their personal data, online transactions and emails, according to top-secret documents revealed by former contractor Edward Snowden.

    This story has been reported in partnership between the New York Times, the Guardian and ProPublica based on documents obtained by the Guardian.
    For the Guardian: James Ball, Julian Borger, Glenn Greenwald
    1. For the New York Times: Nicole Perlroth, Scott Shane
      For ProPublica: Jeff Larson
      Read the New York Times story here

    The files show that the National Security Agency…

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