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After the leak of information about American espionage made by the former technician of the CIA Edward Snowden, the world has been increasingly concerned with the issues of privacy and security on the internet that NSA (United States National Security Agency) has managed to cheat.
A NSA uses supercomputers, technical tricks and court orders to undermine key tools that protect the privacy of everyday communications. Even President Dilma Rousseff was the target of gossip from the Uncle Sam.
The spy agency has byed or broken most of the Encryption that protects data from world trade, banking systems, information such as medical records, emails, internet chats, phone calls and other forms of communication in Worldwide.
Success in deciphering protected data is treated as one of the best kept secrets, restricted to personnel who participate in a top secret program called Bullrun, according to Snowden's documents.
As of 2000, several tools for Encryption were incorporated into the internet, so the NSA invested billions of dollars to maintain the ability to access information on the network.
According to the documents, the agency deployed super-fast, custom-built computers to break codes and enlisted the help of technology companies in the United States and other countries to add backdoors to services on the World Wide Web.
The documents do not say which companies participated. The agency also hacked computers destination to intercept messages before they are encrypted.
As the information is published, it is possible to better understand and the reach of the North American spy system. THE breach of privacy became a topic around the world and makes us think about the consequences in our lives.
And you, what do you think?
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