Don't forget to change your passwords!

[Wolferz]

Originally Posted by Skybird

It could very well be that it is no criminal gangsters behind this, or an unintended error during programming of source code, but that intelligence agencies, namely the NSA, are behind this, in an effort to generally weaken security standards in the web and install backdoors that are hidden as "criminal" attacks or "software bugs" to allow what is called "plausible denial". That certain intelligence services are explicitly trying to overhear and control ALL the internet and enforce access to EVERY system there is, is no longer a secret by now, is it.

It's the side benefit that DARPA had planned from the get go. Easy access for intelligence gathering and information control purposes.
Orwell was only off by what, thirty years?