Animal rights activist hit with RIPA key decrypt demand
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| An animal rights activist has been ordered to hand over her encryption keys
| to the authorities.
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| Section Three of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) came into
| force at the start in October 2007, seven years after the original
| legislation passed through parliament. Intended primarily to deal with terror
| suspects, it allows police to demand encryption keys or provide a clear text
| transcript of encrypted text.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/14/ripa_encryption_key_notice/
Wow. Just wow. And to think that encryption in Windows is said to have back
doors.
Related:
Microsoft could be teaching police to hack Vista
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2150555/microsoft-teaching-police-hack
UK holds Microsoft security talks
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4713018.stm
Spy Master Admits Error
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20749773/site/newsweek/
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/nsa_helps_micro_1.html
FBI ducks questions about its remotely installed spyware
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9747666-7.html
United States Government Online Watchdogs? Part of the war on terror?
http://www.whitedust.net/news/3984/United_States_Government_Online_Watchdogs?_Part_of_the_war_on_terror?.../
Back doors in Windows XP...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGlNTEQ0RzM
Mother of all spyware...
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forget-about-the-WGA-20-Windows-Vista-Features-and-Services-Harvest-User-Data-for-Microsoft-58752.shtml
Police eats your CPU cycles and disk space...
http://www.abanet.org/journal/ereport/jy13tkjasn.html
Will Microsoft Put The Colonel in the Kernel?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/14/043200
Austria OKs terror snooping Trojan plan
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/23/teutonic_trojan/
Schäuble renews calls for surreptitious online searches of PCs
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/97755/from/rss09
Microsoft exec calls XP hack 'frightening'
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6218238.html
Duh! Windows Encryption Hacked Via Random Number Generator
http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/14365/duh-windows-encryption-hacked-via-random-number-generator
"Trusted" Computing
http://tuxdeluxe.org/node/164
Read on APIs here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Allchin
How NSA access was built into Windows
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/5/5263/1.html
NSA Builds Security Access Into Windows
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990903S0014
Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai.html
No email privacy rights under Constitution, US gov claims
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/04/4th-amendment_email_privacy/
Why proprietary code is bad for security
http://wolfgang.lonien.de/?p=394
Beware of Skype
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/2479
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