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My NSA security violation

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Sep

2015

About a year after I started at the National Security Agency, I suffered the embarrassment of being caught violating #nsa #security procedures. I was totally guilty and it was quite humiliating, as you can imagine. It was made worse by how easily it could have been avoided. Welcome to the National Security Agency My first […]

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MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ Lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data

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Jun

2015

The cryptography behind bitcoin solved a paradoxical problem: a currency with no regulator that nonetheless can’t be counterfeited. Now a similar mix of math and code promises to pull off another seemingly magical feat by allowing anyone to share their data with the cloud and nonetheless keep it entirely private. On Tuesday, a pair of […]

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IRS Encourages Poor Cryptography

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Feb

2015

I’m not sure what to make of this, or even what it means. The #irs has a standard called IDES: International Data Exchange Service: “The International Data Exchange Service (IDES) is an electronic delivery point where Financial Institutions (FI) and Host Country Tax Authorities (HCTA) can transmit and exchange FATCA data with the United States.” […]

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