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NSA can break Internet encryption, documents say

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MSN.com - 9/05/13, Joseph Menn of Reuters

NSA has the ability to crack encryption: NSA campus signs: The sign outside the National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Md.

The sign outside the National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Md. AP Photo: Patrick Semansky

 

SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. National Security Agency has secretly developed the ability to crack or circumvent commonplace Internet encryption used to protect everything from email to financial transactions, according to media reports citing documents obtained by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

The Guardian, The New York Times and journalistic nonprofit ProPublica reported on Thursday that the U.S. intelligence agency used a variety of means, ranging from the insertion of "back doors" in popular tech products and services, to supercomputers, secret court orders and the manipulation of international processes for setting encryption standards.

Mystery of Shambhala

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Waking Times - 2/25/13

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I believe the idea of Shambhala has not yet come to full flower, but that when it does it will have enormous power to reshape civilisation. It is the sign of the future. The search for a new unifying principle that our civilisation must now undertake will, I am convinced, lead it to this source of higher energies, and Shambhala will become the great icon of the new millennium. – Victoria LePage, Shambhala

South African gold miners strike over ‘slave wages in white man’s economy’

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The Raw Story - 9/04/13, David Smith, The Guardian

 

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80,000 miners walk out in industrial action that will cost country £22m a day as government admits it can only plead for solution

 

About 80,000 gold miners in South Africa walked out on strike on Tuesday night, raising fears of renewed violence in the crisis-hit industry and underlining the government’s dwindling authority.

President Jacob Zuma admitted that he could only plead with companies and unions to find a peaceful solution and avoid seriously damaging the economy, already hit by sluggish growth and a contagion of strikes in other sectors.

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