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Friday, May 12, 2017

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New York University accidentally exposes a secret NSA encryption code cracking project to the entire world


An anonymous researcher stumbled across a top secret military  project on a public server at New York University. The National Security Agency was working with the university to create a code-breaking machine (stock image)A highly-advanced code-breaking project , named WindsorGreen, was meant to provide the US with new secret weapon in cyber warfare.
But, thanks to a bizarre slip up at a top university, the whole world was able to access the classified US military computer project.
Details of the leak were recently uncovered after a security researcher found documentation and software for the computer on a completely unsecured public server.  


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