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NSA will not stop spying on us, next move
Quantum computer to break strongest
Encryptionby Swati Khandelwal on Saturday, January 04, 2014
If I say that NSA (National Security Agency) will never stop spying on us then it won’t be wrong. After the
exposure of the large number of surveillance scandals including PRISM, DROPOUTJEEP, XKeyscore and
many many more which are now publicly known as well as unknown, Will NSA ever stop Privacy
breach?
Obviously 'NO'. That I can predict from another Snowden leak published by the Washington Post news
website recently i.e. US National Security Agency (NSA) is trying to develop a futuristic super computer
called 'Quantum computer' that could be capable of breaking almost every kind of encryption on the
computer used to protect banks, medical, business including top-secret information held by government
around the world.
The Project is specified as “Penetrating Hard Targets” in the document and is a part of $79.7 million
research program. The Washington Post says that the research is being done at the University of
Maryland's Laboratory for Physical Sciences.
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The goal of creating a working quantum computer is to boost encryption cracking capabilities against
world's strongest encryption i.e. RSA - commonly used in Web browsers for encrypted emails and secure
financial transactions.
RT News reports:
The progress of the NSA's Project on such computer is not known, but Snowden’s documents suggested
that the agency is no closer to building a quantum computer and it is difficult to attain because of the
fragile nature of such computers.
His disclosures not only threatened the whole world but also surprised his own citizens who have the
thing called the Constitution and in that constitution has a 'Bill of rights', one of which is the 4th
amendment says:
Now when the IT World is facing massive security breaches like Target, Adobe, Linkedin, Snapchat due to
the lack of good encryption practices and Malware threats like Cryptolocker - due to the strongest
encryption, but the NSA is doing NOTHING to defend people against such threats.
I suppose the dedication of NSA to save the world and to developing the strongest encryptions, rather
they are ruining the user' privacy and security community by targeting encryption, tapping
300000 Android Devices
infected by Premium SMS-
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The basic principle in quantum computing is “quantum superposition,” or the idea that an
object simultaneously exists in all states. A classic computer uses binary bits, or zeroes and
ones. A quantum computer uses quantum bits, or qubits, that are simultaneously zero and
one. While a classic computer must do one calculation at a time, a quantum computer can
achieve a correct answer much faster and efficiently through parallel processing, with no
need to run those calculations.
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The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against
unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but
upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place
to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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Swati Khandelwal - Senior Editor at 'The Hacker News'. Social Media Lover
and Gadgets Girl. Speaker, Cyber Security Expert and Technical Writer.
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telephones, accessing email, hacking iPhone etc. At the same time such activities by National Security
Agencies are also motivating the cyber criminals to do the same.
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Raghav Sharma • a month ago
I dont know about n Dwave n all But all i know is that author looks really cute to me ;)
• Reply •
Vitaliy Anonymous • a month ago
Umm, there are only two types of encryption cracking. One is dictionary cracking. The other is brute
force. However, with the current technology, the more advanced the encryption key is, the more harder
it is to crack. Unless they can come up with technology that can boost the cracking time, then it is
believable. Otherwise, something like j47k5# n̂j34#@mkdl$ would still take a lifetime to crack.
• Reply •
R0Z • a month ago
Are you joking ?
Quantum computer . . .
Who believe in that ?
• Reply •
droopyar • a month ago
It is already at NSA that machine. DWAVE, google it
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Unix-Ninja • a month ago
Umm, DWave already sells working quantum computers, and they were subcontracted through
Lockheed Martin to manufacture a whole bunch of them for NSA in 2012. That's all part of the NSA's
new Utah DC that was just recently completed. It's kind of old news though.
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