Cryptography is the backbone of privacy on the internet. The NSA paid the leading cryptography company to deliberately break this cryptography, thus deliberately making the internet insecure. The US government is actively working against the interest of Americans.
Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer
As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million contract with RSA, one of the most influential firms in the computer security
industry, Reuters has learned.
... the NSA created and promulgated a flawed formula
for generating random numbers to create a "back door" in encryption
products, the New York Times reported in September. Reuters later
reported that RSA became the most important distributor of that formula
by rolling it into a software tool called Bsafe that is used to enhance security in personal computers and many other products. ...
Undisclosed until now was that RSA received $10 million in a deal that set the NSA formula as the preferred, or default, method for number generation ...
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