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Encryption works? Microsoft helps NSA break through its own data protections

New documents, leaked by Edward Snowden and reported in The Guardian newspaper, show how the NSA got Microsoft to circumvent its own encryption to intercept Outlook and Skype communications.

New documents, leaked by Edward Snowden and reported in The Guardian newspaper, show Microsoft helped the NSA circumvent its own encryption to intercept Outlook and Skype communications.

Chester Wisniewski, with the cyber security firm Sophos, joins Marketplace Tech host Ben Johnson to discuss.

 

 

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