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Old 07-16-2013, 08:29 AM  
rowan
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Originally Posted by crockett View Post
Does SSL really matter? If you read those articles the NSA has access to stuff like outlook.com before it gets encrypted.
If I understand correctly, that's because of their agreement with MS.

There's no way (as far as we know) that SSL can be broken, but that doesn't stop the NSA being able to intercept and store encrypted data for a future date when it CAN be read (either through some magical new method of codebreaking, or something less fancy like acquiring the SSL certificate for that host...)

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Originally Posted by crockett View Post
I'd suspect that they long ago gained backdoor access to the worlds most used forum software, considering they have everyone else's.
FWIW, VBulletin is in cleartext PHP. Any backdoors would be noticed pretty quickly.
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