{"id":9140,"date":"2013-07-26T16:59:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T16:57:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T16:57:03","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9140","title":{"rendered":"CNet.com: Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNet.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13578_3-57595529-38\/feds-tell-web-firms-to-turn-over-user-account-passwords\/\">Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords<\/a> by Declan McCullagh:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users&#8217; stored passwords, according to two industry sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>If the government is able to determine a person&#8217;s password, which is typically stored in encrypted form, the credential could be used to log in to an account to peruse confidential correspondence or even impersonate the user. Obtaining it also would aid in deciphering encrypted devices in situations where passwords are reused.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13578_3-57595202-38\/feds-put-heat-on-web-firms-for-master-encryption-keys\/\">Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys<\/a> by Declan McCullagh:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whether the FBI and NSA have the legal authority to obtain the master keys that companies use for Web encryption remains an open question, but it hasn&#8217;t stopped the U.S. government from trying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9140\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}