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"Anti-Privacy" Laws?

Privacy law proponents often find themselves at odds with policymakers developing security regulations. In order for effective monitoring to take place, the Government and law enforcement agencies require access to sensitive information about individuals including their financial transactions, and electronic and phone communications. The following laws are known colloquially as “anti-privacy laws” because they take away some individual privacy rights in the interest of trying to detect and prevent fraud, terrorism and other significant [...]

Popular encryption software flaw details published

The recently unveiled flaw in SSH reiterates the idea that, no matter how good the technology, it will eventually fail from a whole host of threats. In this case, the implementation flaw occurred in a software product that had been previously “proven secure”. Real world implementations are more complex than security models, and other mitigations must be in place when a design does finally [...]