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Canadian gov't: you have no expectation of privacy on the Internet
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| In the latest episode of the Canadian tech podcast Search Engine, Peter Van
| Loan, the new Public Safety minister, attempts to explain the Conservative
| government's approach to privacy on the internet. It's a remarkable piece of
| audio. It goes a little like this:
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| Search Engine: Here's some audio of your predecessor promising, on behalf of
| your party and your government, never to ever allow the police to wiretap the
| Internet without a warrant.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/30/canadian-govt-you-ha.html
Deep-Packet Inspection in U.S. Scrutinized Following Iran Surveillance
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| Following a report last week that Iran is spying on domestic internet users
| with western-supplied technology, advocacy groups are pressuring federal
| lawmakers to scrutinize the use of the same technology in the U.S.
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| The Open Internet Coalition sent a letter to all members of the House and
| Senate urging them to launch hearings aimed at examining and possibly
| regulating the so-called deep-packet inspection technology.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/06/deep-packet-inspection/
Snooping through the power socket
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| Power sockets can be used to eavesdrop on what people type on a computer.
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| Security researchers found that poor shielding on some keyboard cables means
| useful data can be leaked about each character typed.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8147534.stm
Recent:
Secure Your E-Mail With Thunderbird and GnuPG
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| The next step is to find a GPG plug-in for the e-mail client you intend to
| use: In this article we'll use the open-source Thunderbird 2 e-mail client,
| although plug-ins of varying quality are available for many more clients
| including Eudora and Outlook Express on Windows, Thunderbird, KMail and
| Evolution on Linux, and Thunderbird and Mail.app on OS X.
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http://www.practicallynetworked.com/security/secure_your_email_with_thunderbird_and_gnupg.htm
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