NSA Has Secretly Been Hacking, Cracking, And Circumventing Encryption For Years

If you're using encryption with an American company, you might as well forget about any actual privacy. Newly disclosed documents from leaker-on-the-run Edward Snowden reveal that the National Security Agency has been fighting a secret war on encryption...and winning. We wrote about secure email options a while ago, most of which rely on methods like PGP and GnuPG to keep your communications private. Some of those services, namely the ones based in countries with a less intrusive government, lik...