Was 2013 the year online privacy died? Or was it the year that people
paying attention realized that their online lives—and all their data
and communications—was low-hanging fruit that was being picked and
parsed by big government and big business.
Edward Snowden’s theft of what’s now said to be 1.7 million
files showed the world that America’s spymasters were grabbing
everything that passed between smart phones, Wi-Fi signals, laptops, and
those devices’ contents: account log-ins, passwords, etc. As 2014
began, The Washington Post reported
that the National Security Agency was building “a computer that could
break nearly every kind of encryption used to protect banking, medical,
business and government records around the world.”
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