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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/5196551

A decade after Snowden exposed NSA’s mass surveillance in cooperation with the British GCHQ, only about 1 percent of the documents have been published, but three major facts can finally be revealed thanks to a doctoral thesis in applied cryptography by Jacob Appelbaum.

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[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

The three major facts:

the NSA listed Cavium, an American semiconductor company marketing Central Processing Units (CPUs) - the main processor in a computer which runs the operating system and applications - as a successful example of a "SIGINT enabled" CPU vendor. Cavium, now owned by Marvell said it does not implement back doors for any government.

the NSA compromised lawful Russian interception infrastructure, SORM. The NSA archive contains slides showing two Russian officers wearing jackets with a slogan written in Cyrillic: "you talk, we listen". The NSA and/or GCHQ has also compromised "Key European LI [lawful interception] systems.

among example targets of its mass surveillance program, PRISM, the NSA listed the Tibetan government in exile.

[–] Rapidcreek@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What do you think the NSA is supposed to do?

[–] taanegl@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not be as bad or worse than the CIA?

[–] Rapidcreek@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes, it's better not to know what goes on in this world...