US and UK intelligence have reportedly cracked technology used to encrypt internet services such as online banking, medical records and email.

Disclosures by leaker Edward Snowden allege the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the UK's GCHQ are hacking key online security protocols.

The encryption techniques targeted are used by popular internet services such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo.

The NSA is said to spend $250m (£160m) a year on the top secret program.

Even the Sydney Morning Herald is singing to the Murdoch tune

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Fairfax Media chairman Roger Corbett attended a $500-a-head Liberal Party fund-raiser and stood to applaud Tony Abbott on Wednesday night, amid increasing criticism and a suggestion that he should resign from the Reserve Bank board for publicly criticising the Prime Minister.

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I’m just off the phone after dozens of radio interviews. Our [GetUp!] member-funded ad calling out Murdoch’s bias is causing quite a fuss.

If President Barack Obama and his administration are not lying in the lead-up to a probable bombing campaign of Syria it will be a rare exception among US Presidents, particularly since their public duplicity concerning war dates to at least the early twentieth century.

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