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Schneier: terrorists will switch to more secure alternatives to avoid encryption backdoors

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A study shows that if the U.S. mandates backdoors to decrypt secret messages in order to help law enforcement, there would still be hundreds of alternative encryption products made outside the reach of U.S. law that terrorists and criminals could get their hands on.

“Smart criminals and terrorists will easily be able to switch to more secure alternatives,” is the conclusion drawn by the study “A Worldwide Survey of Encryption Products”. The authors were Internet security authority Bruce Schneier of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, independent security researcher Kathleen Seidel, and Saranya Vijayakumar, a Harvard student.

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Network World Tim Greene

Superior Alternatives to Boring Stock Mac Apps

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Macs are bundled with a ton of software. Some of it is awesome, but some of it’s overly basic. That’s the catch with a lot of default Mac software: it’s easy, but the second you want to do something more with it, you’re out of luck. So, we’ve compiled a …
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Silk Road alternatives live on despite second FBI raid

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In a development that those involved in the project clearly should have seen coming, the FBI today shut down Silk Road 2.0, the revival of the deep web black market site that the FBI took down in September 2013, and arrested its suspected operator exactly one year after it went live.

Blake Benthall, a 26-year-old San Francisco programmer who claimed to work for SpaceX, was charged with conspiring to commit narcotics trafficking, which, the FBI reminds us in a press release, “carries a maximum sentence of life in prison and a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison,” among other charges.

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Network World Colin Neagle