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USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: By cracking cellphone code, NSA has capacity for decoding private conversations

16 December 2013

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"The cellphone encryption technology used most widely across the world can be easily defeated by the National Security Agency, an internal document shows, giving the agency the means to decode most of the billions of calls and texts that travel over public airwaves every day."

See the full article: By cracking cellphone code, NSA has capacity for decoding private conversations (Washington Post, link)

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