Editing Computer security (section)

===Global surveillance disclosures===
{{Main|Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)}}

In early 2013, documents provided by [[Edward Snowden]] were published by ''[[The Washington Post]]'' and ''[[The Guardian]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Greenwald|first=Glenn|title=NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=16 August 2013|quote=Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring [[Verizon]] to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under [[Barack Obama|Obama]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130816045641/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order|archive-date=16 August 2013|date=6 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Seipel |first=Hubert |title=Transcript: ARD interview with Edward Snowden |url=https://www.freesnowden.is/fr/2014/01/27/video-ard-interview-with-edward-snowden/ |work=La Foundation Courage |access-date=11 June 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714174333/https://www.freesnowden.is/fr/2014/01/27/video-ard-interview-with-edward-snowden/ |archive-date=14 July 2014  }}</ref> exposing the massive scale of [[NSA]] global surveillance. There were also indications that the NSA may have inserted a backdoor in a [[NIST]] standard for encryption.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Lily Hay |last=Newman |date=9 October 2013 |url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/can-you-trust-nist |title=Can You Trust NIST? |journal=IEEE Spectrum |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201095426/https://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/can-you-trust-nist |archive-date=1 February 2016  }}</ref> This standard was later withdrawn due to widespread criticism.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/sp800-90-042114.cfm | work=National Institute of Standards and Technology | title=NIST Removes Cryptography Algorithm from Random Number Generator Recommendations | date=21 April 2014}}</ref> The NSA additionally were revealed to have tapped the links between [[Google]]'s data centers.<ref>[http://mashable.com/2013/10/30/nsa-google-yahoo-data-centers/ "New Snowden Leak: NSA Tapped Google, Yahoo Data Centers"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140709131535/http://mashable.com/2013/10/30/nsa-google-yahoo-data-centers/ |date=9 July 2014 }}, 31 October 2013, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, mashable.com</ref>