Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google expressed unease Friday about the National Security Agency’s ability to bypass online security systems that protect the privacy of internet users. …
http://rt.com/usa/encryption-compromised-yahoo-google-microsoft-530/
_NSAKEY was a variable name discovered in Windows NT 4Service Pack 5 (which had been released unstripped of its symbolic debugging data) in August 1999 by Andrew D. Fernandes of Cryptonym Corporation. That variable contained a 1024-bit public key. …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
Any network service protected by a public key can be accessed by whoever has the corresponding secret key.
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