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News flash. The NSA can decode your private, encrypted conversations. The Washington Post is reporting that the agency isn't just swiping location data from phones, they also have the ability to read and tap into all your texts and calls. All at their disposal!

The encryption technology known as A5/1 has been noted for its vulnerabilities for years, and most global carriers haven't upgraded to more complex software just yet.According to The Washington Post's report:
The vulnerability outlined in the NSA document concerns encryption developed in the 1980s but still used widely by cellphones that rely on technology called second-generation (2G) GSM. It is dominant in most of the world but less so in the wealthiest nations, including the United States, where newer networks such as 3G and 4G increasingly provide faster speeds and better encryption, industry officials say.
Experts have said that it is indeed possible for the NSA to decode more sophisticated means of encryption, although doing so is far more difficult at this point of time and can't be applied to a larger scale.

Privacy is dead. But you already know that.

[The Washington Post]