Crypto-Gram 15 Oct 2013

In this issue:

• How the NSA Attacks Tor/Firefox Users With QUANTUM and FOXACID
• Why It's Important to Publish the NSA Programs
• The NSA's New Risk Analysis
• Reforming the NSA
• The Limitations of Intelligence
• Metadata Equals Surveillance
• Senator Feinstein Admits the NSA Taps the Internet Backbone
• NSA Storing Internet Data, Social Networking Data, on Pretty Much Everybody
• Air Gaps
• Will Keccak = SHA-3?
• Google Knows Every Wi-Fi Password in the World
• Surreptitiously Tampering with Computer Chips

from the October 15, 2013 Crypto-Gram Newsletter
by Bruce Schneier
read by Dan Henage