In the wake of the WikiLeaks leaks of CIA documents showing through 8.000+ internal secret documents serviceof information all (?) types of hacking used by American spies, what has changed in the world of security?
Contrary to Snowden's documents, which shocked the world so much, the interest of the online community does not seem to be the same. On Snowden, months later, even those who were not interested in technology, they read the news with awe, realizing for the first time how much their personal life was exposed.
But let's look at things a little more "realistically."
First of all the CIA is an intelligence agency, trying in every way to get everyone information. The CIA is doing exactly what the Russians, Chinese, British intelligence and many others are doing. If they weren't looking for or buying zero-days, which hack into the iPhones of foreign actors inside and outside the US, then they wouldn't be doing their job right.
On the other hand, maintaining security remains as important this week as it was last week and all other weeks before WikiLeaks leaks, we all agree that our information needs to be secure.
Despite WikiLeaks claims that the CIA may bypass encrypted messaging applications, secret service has not broken the applications themselves but the operating systems. Encryption was not broken, but it was bypassed.
Do not be wrong, even so these hacking techniques are real, there are results and the CIA uses them. But it is not something that was not expected.
The companies whose name was "heard" like Open Whisper Systems, που αναπτύσσει το Signal, they said smugly, that this shows how their efforts are paying off.
"End-to-end encryption is pushing intelligence services to bypass it using targeted attacks."
"The story is not whether Signal or WhatsApp are vulnerable. We see it as a confirmation that what we are doing works. ”
Below is an excerpt from our post-Snowden publication.
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More than a month we have been reading publications about US secret service operations, or to tell us, one of the secret services of USA. At first the reactions were numb, rather we were trying to figure out the size. And I mention the size because I do not believe there is anyone in our readership to believe that the US did not dig something with a global medium of communication that has been established so much in recent years.
Immediately after the first shock, the reactions started, while new information arrived. All the big Internet companies that increase the main (if not all) volume of the traffic, had allied themselves with the spy programs of USA.
Η Microsoft, η Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),The GoogleThe Yahoo and who knows how many others, gave open access to the NSA to facilitate their high work. Watch what our conversations, with our loved ones, sorry NSA I'm not a terrorist.
Immediately after the overthrow, the denials came. Have you honestly expected any of the above companies to take responsibility? I do not think. But it does not stop here.
In the following period, press reports were presented Yahoo has sued in the US because it never wanted to watch its customers.
However, this publication was submitted 2-3 days after that Edward Snowden revealed the company's actions. Random?
Immediately after, there follows a publication that shows Yahoo almost regretfully saying that "after that we do not take your trust". Very diplomatically accepted acceptance! You may think too much. like let's say "Yahoo will now try to win our trust" with what that means.
The big and innocent Google followed. And she filed a lawsuit seeking the clarification of her name, who for so many years watches her as an eye pupil. You want to blame Google for keeping track of its users ... It was not new.
Then came her sudden decision to ensure the confidentiality of her users' data by changing her encryption.
Eventually, perhaps all of Snowden's statements, documented by NSA documents, may be all fairy tales and the only true thing in this case is that companies, always trying altruistically, can help us.
But since good sarcasm, but truth, seems to be on the opposite side of the river, we probably have a responsibility too. Everybody involved in the technology knows that there are no secrets on the Internet. OR NSA did exactly what they were ordered to do.
But we were not ordered to use us Skype or WhatsappOr gmail, Mac OS X ή Windows. And of course I blame myself that while I know the action of Google and every Google I continue to use gmail.
H MicrosoftThe Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),The Google, And the Yahoo they will never say they have allied with the secret services, because this will cost financially and not only.
And if they say or change ever, they can not ensure that they will not repeat it in the future, especially when things are quiet.
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After all that has been preceded, what has changed? Has a court ruled against the NSA, or have the secret services stopped doing their job? Did they stop vulnerabilities? Or is there anyone who thinks it's safe on the Internet?
In our previous release, we said we would be safe until the next Snowden, and it seems the time has come.
Let's discuss it a little more until it is forgotten… ..
