Documents Reveal NSA Can Crack Online Encryption

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Documents Reveal NSA Can Crack Online Encryption, 'Last Bastion of Privacy'

Encryption technology is supposed to keep your online activity private, but secret documents reveal the NSA knows how to crack the code and has, in some cases, been working with companies directly. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Nicole Perlroth of The New York Times about how the NSA is reacting to the revelations.

AIR DATE 9/6/13

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