The Edward Snowden leaks revealed that the NSA had made significant strides against the TLS layer, which protects many of the Internet's "secure" communications including HTTPS. It is now almost certain that at least a part of that breakthrough stride comes as a result of the NSA inserting...

anonymous1337 thankyou very kindly for your reply, great insight there and it answered pretty much all my questions regarding off-topic posts, and I'm glad that general off-topic IT-related topics are welcomed :) Going to make my first one now ... this one regarding one of the biggest crypto stories...

Apologies if an off-topic subforum has been requested before, but under the MISC Forum category it'd be awesome to have something like "Off-topic: Misc IT", for the discussion of IT-related topics that aren't about Freebasic, but that may be of significance/interest to FB'ers. It would als...

Greetings FB'ers! :) it's a pleasure to join the FB community About me ... I'm a Powerbasic (PB) refugee... I joined the PB forum in ~2003 as Wayne Diamond, and despite many hundreds of code contributions over nearly a decade I ended up getting banned, because by PB philosophy it's a crime not to us...