After owning Strongly condemned the proliferation of cryptocurrenciesThe NSA has attacked Silicon Valley giants, including Google and Apple, which are increasingly using data encryption as a marketing argument.
Messages passing through encrypted networks, which are more complex to decipher, require more resources and time than the NSA to properly analyze. The American agency even managed to change the position of Google, which wanted to mobilize Google. Data encryption on Androidmakes it more complicated to refer to the data contained in a smartphone itself. On the other hand, it is important to note that since Android is the mobile operating system where fragmentation is most important, this solution will only apply to a reduced proportion of smartphones in circulation.
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More recently, the NSA switched sides, announcing that it favored encryption of communications, provided access to a few backdoors. Was this a way to announce the imminent arrival of an application for creating secure networks designed in partnership with the intelligence agency? Nothing is less certain.
sold as $10 monthly subscription, this app will create secure networks even inside other unencrypted networks. According to USMobile co-founder Jon Hanour, this app will use technology designed during the Fishbowl project and used to secure Department of Defense exchanges.
Jon Hanour goes so far as to declare that “the NSA will not be able to crack this encryption”. It’s a hypothesis that’s impossible to verify in practice, but it seems surprising that the intelligence agency has offered a tool to users. it encrypts all its files without errorwithout any access.
“From the start, the NSA has created security systems so well that even it cannot penetrate them from the outside,” says Jon Hanour.
This app can also installed on a company’s servers to secure the latter’s data and allow the exchange of encrypted messages.
