This is probably something that most of us already knew about already. The best thing that we can do is change our passwords regularly, make them more complex and less obvious.
"The Obama administration’s security services want your Internet service to hand over your password to them. Are you comfortable with this?
The website that broke this news, CNET, called this an “escalation in Internet surveillance” by the federal government. Yeah, I’d say so!
“The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users’ stored passwords, according to two industry sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed,” the tech website reported on July 25.
That isn’t all the government is demanding from our Internet providers. They also want our security questions and the company’s algorithms.
Some of the government orders demand not only a user’s password but also the encryption algorithm and the so-called salt, according to a person familiar with the requests. A salt is a random string of letters or numbers used to make it more difficult to reverse the encryption process and determine the original password. Other orders demand the secret question codes often associated with user accounts.
Naturally most of the Internet companies that CNET tried to interview about this refused to talk about the whole thing. Who can blame them with the iron boot heel of Obama’s administration on their necks, eh?
Even as far back as 2011, Congress and the President were debating whether they should get some sort of Internet kill switch installed into our system of online communications"
http://www.pakalertpress.com/2013/0...mands-internet-companies-give-over-passwords/
"The Obama administration’s security services want your Internet service to hand over your password to them. Are you comfortable with this?
The website that broke this news, CNET, called this an “escalation in Internet surveillance” by the federal government. Yeah, I’d say so!
“The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users’ stored passwords, according to two industry sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed,” the tech website reported on July 25.
That isn’t all the government is demanding from our Internet providers. They also want our security questions and the company’s algorithms.
Some of the government orders demand not only a user’s password but also the encryption algorithm and the so-called salt, according to a person familiar with the requests. A salt is a random string of letters or numbers used to make it more difficult to reverse the encryption process and determine the original password. Other orders demand the secret question codes often associated with user accounts.
Naturally most of the Internet companies that CNET tried to interview about this refused to talk about the whole thing. Who can blame them with the iron boot heel of Obama’s administration on their necks, eh?
Even as far back as 2011, Congress and the President were debating whether they should get some sort of Internet kill switch installed into our system of online communications"
http://www.pakalertpress.com/2013/0...mands-internet-companies-give-over-passwords/
