Windows, Cisco, RSA products. And they did it in a real sneaky way.
2 Windows employees spotted the vulnerability in 2007. Snowden leaks confirm.
Read the whole article. Very interesting.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/nsa-backdoor/
“It is extraordinarily bad cryptography,” says Kocher. “If you look at the NSA’s role in creating standards [over the years] and its general cryptographic sophistication, none of it makes sense if there isn’t a backdoor in this.”
Pre 2005 copy of Steganos is the last secure software.
Jedburgh1 - Pre 2005 copy of Steganos is the last secure software.
What is steganos 
Jedburgh1 - Pre 2005 copy of Steganos is the last secure software.
Never heard of it. Care to elaborate?
I'd like the same power, but with chicks.
Red-White-Blue - I'd like the same power, but with chicks.
Lol
Ha, me too
PUBLICnoose -Like Truecrypt but proprietaryJedburgh1 - Pre 2005 copy of Steganos is the last secure software.What is steganos
How a Crypto ‘Backdoor’ Pitted the Tech World Against the NSA
Illustration: alengo/Getty Images
In August 2007, a young programmer in Microsoft’s Windows security group stood up to give a five-minute turbo talk at the annual Crypto conference in Santa Barbara.
It was a Tuesday evening, part of the conference’s traditional rump session, when a hodge-podge of short talks are presented outside of the conference’s main lineup. To draw attendees away from the wine and beer that competed for their attention at that hour, presenters sometimes tried to sex up their talks with provocative titles like “Does Bob Go to Prison?” or “How to Steal Cars – A Practical Attack on KeeLoq” or “The Only Rump Session Talk With Pamela Anderson.”
The talk was only nine slides long (.pdf). But those nine slides were potentially dynamite. They laid out a case showing that a new encryption standard, given a stamp of approval by the U.S. government, possessed a glaring weakness that made an algorithm in it susceptible to cracking. But the weakness they described wasn’t just an average vulnerability, it had the kind of properties one would want if one were intentionally inserting a backdoor to make the algorithm susceptible to cracking by design.
Six years later, that’s all changed.
Early this month the New York Times drew a connection between their talk and memos leaked by Edward Snowden, classified Top Secret, that apparently confirms that the weakness in the standard and so-called Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm was indeed a backdoor. The Times story implies that the backdoor was intentionally put there by the NSA as part of a $250-million, decade-long covert operation by the agency to weaken and undermine the integrity of a number of encryption systems used by millions of people around the world............
...............“What’s mathematically creative [with this algorithm] is that when you look at it, you can’t even prove whether there is a backdoor or not, which is very bizarre in cryptography,” he says. “Usually the presence of a backdoor is something you can prove is there, because you can see it and exploit it…. In my entire career in cryptography, I’ve never seen a vulnerability like this.”
Never been. More disappointed in a thread with the words backdoor involved
"Linux creator admits NSA demanded backdoor"
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lol...I still remember the knock down drag out arguments I had with people here on the OG about this shit. I insisted that the NSA had their snouts in everything, were monitoring all internet traffic, etc..etc... and the usual pro govt authoritarian morons argued like a rabid pitbull that I was living in a fantasy world and the NSA didn't have the technology to do anything of the sort.
Fucking idiots!
angryinch -
lol...I still remember the knock down drag out arguments I had with people here on the OG about this shit. I insisted that the NSA had their snouts in everything, were monitoring all internet traffic, etc..etc... and the usual pro govt authoritarian morons argued like a rabid pitbull that I was living in a fantasy world and the NSA didn't have the technology to do anything of the sort.
Fucking idiots!
Yep. Those of us who have been sounding the alarm have been ignored and marginalized. No more.
On Saturday October 26th, on the 12th anniversary of the signing of the Patriot Act, thousands of people from across the country and political spectrum are coming together in Washington D.C. to deliver a message to Congress:
STOP WATCHING US!
https://rally.stopwatching.us/
Yup, the NSA loves anal.
If we all make an effort to incorporate trigger words into our online activities, we could possibly overwhelm the system.
Imagine if every forum post, instant message, email, facebook post had some form of flagged phrase hidden in it somewhere. It would fuck them right back.