Bigberita - Stories continue to leak the extent to which the National Security
Agency can look at even the most secure of our banking, shopping, real
estate, legal and other transactions across the Internet.
According to Technorati listed blog Business Insider, documents released by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden
show that his former employer can pretty much sneak a peek at our daily
transactions via carefully crafted coding "back doors". No back door
available? Through the use of super-computers, the NSA can simply hack
past the security of the Internet as a whole.
Which means that anything you've been doing through https (or using
the Internet's "secure socket layer" is as transparent as looking
through an open window. Or a wall of glass.
Kind of feels like, at this point, any web site marketing its
transactions as "secure" should simply remove those feel-good security
logos and simply admit nothing we do is safe from our spy agency's
prying eyes.
Can you hear the voices in the crowd shouting, "Internet Security has no clothes"? So what is there to do about it?
For one, according the the Insider, allowing the NSA to have a seat
at the table to help craft Internet security will likely come to a
screeching halt, as questions require answers. Secondarily, it's about
time we look at Quantum Mechanics...
Before now, the cost of using quantum mechanics for encrypted
transactions, magnitudes more secure over today's more traditional
security methods, has been relegated to niche high-security networks.
Quantum key distributed transactions were seen as performed on a
one-to-one basis with high-speed single-photon detectors in nodes on
Internet-connected networks, meaning prices went up rapidly for such
servers with each new customer.
That is, until now...
An article in the scientific journal Nature reveals that researchers have come up with a way to make quantum-based Internet security
far cheaper, creating keys for up to 64 secure user transactions
simultaneously with a single photo detector. This form of newly
discovered multi-tasking will surely drive down prices for the advanced
security tech, meaning we might actually see NSA-proof Internet traffic
soon.
Worried that this also means a setback to our national security
efforts, as terrorists turn to these safer networks? Think again. What
it could mean is that the NSA and other agencies that monitor the Web
for evil-doers will be forced to, once again, obtain court-ordered
warrants and ask more politely for the keys to each of our online
kingdoms. At least until they break these codes as well, however long
that takes.
Checks and balances, my friends....
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