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Android security relies on ZOMBIE CRYPTO, argues infosec pundit – Register

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Android security relies on ZOMBIE CRYPTO, argues infosec pundit
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A German researcher is asking why Google is using the “horribly broken” RC4 and MD5 cipher as its first-default for SSL. The change, he notes in this blog post, has gone unnoticed since December 2010, when the Android 2.3 release swapped from a default …

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Shaming America in Europe, US Gov’t argues against citizens’ privacy protections

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Due to the new privacy laws that the EU is working on, the ACLU’s Jay Stanley and Ben Wizner are in Europe. “Unlike the United States, Europe has a set of basic rules and institutions in place to protect individuals’ privacy, and is trying to update its existing rules and institutions for the digital age,” the ACLU wrote.
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