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All emails to be logged and stored for six months under new Swiss law

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Swissinfo web site on 21 July; subheadings as published: A record of almost every email sent to and from Switzerland is to be logged and stored for at least six months, under a new Swiss surveillance law. Since the beginning of . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 22, 2002

Hackers target web censorship

Well-intentioned hackers are creating tools to help people circumvent web browsing controls in countries where the net is censored. The group of technology experts have produced two programs that help people swap messages that would otherwise be banned or to set up their own networks that help them keep in touch.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 16, 2002

Securing the Mail: Lock Spam and Viruses Out of Sendmail

Repeat after me: "Spam and viruses bad. Locked down mail servers good. Leaving relaying open bad. Locked down mail servers good. Leaving virus avoidance for the end user to deal with bad. Locked down mail servers good." Okay, now that we've . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 15, 2002

ISPs face data interception deadline

From 1 August, ISPs in the UK will be required to be able to intercept your data. Yet the Home Office has failed to explain how they will be reimbursed. And the rules mean that criminals will easily be able to . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 10, 2002

The Perilous Seas of Privacy Law

Dozens of laws, regulations, and self-regulatory programs govern privacy around the world. Further complicating a company's efforts to protect confidential client information are the nuances of privacy. Even when a practice that involves the sharing of some personal customer information is . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 06, 2002

ETSI Gives Mobile Phone Security A Boost

Scientists working for Europe's Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) have devised a new security algorithm, known as A5/3, that will provide network operators and users of GSM mobile phones with an even higher level of protection against eavesdropping than they have already. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 05, 2002

Filtering E-Mail with Postfix and Procmail, Part Two of Three

This article is the second of three articles that will help systems administrators configure SMTP daemons and local mail delivery agents to filter out unwanted e-mails before they arrive in the end-users' in-box. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 27, 2002

MS to eradicate GPL, hence Linux

Yesterday, as we all know, Microsoft fed an 'exclusive' story about its new 'Palladium' DRM/PKI Trust Machine to Newsweek hack Steven Levy (a guy who writes without irony of "high-level encryption"), presumably because they trusted him not to grasp the technology well enough to. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 27, 2002

A Flawed Random-Number Theory

Most of us register aliases, like John Doe and Juxta Position, on the Internet in return for information and services. The use of aliases maintains our privacy, reduces spam and thwarts. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 25, 2002

Filtering E-Mail with Postfix and Procmail, Part One of Three

Most folks dislike spam in their e-mail. Spam takes up our network, disk, and cpu resources. It requires that we weed through unwanted messages to find the ones that we requested. (I'm not going to try to convince you that spam is not good, you can check out some of the anti-spam resources listed in. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 18, 2002

'Massive abuse' of privacy feared

Plans to increase the number of organisations that can look at records of what you do online could lead to widespread abuse of personal information, warn experts. The UK Government this week unveiled a draft list of organisations that will be . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 13, 2002

FTC vows to keep closer tabs on privacy breaches

Companies that release customer data as a result of security mistakes could find themselves in the cross hairs of the Federal Trade Commission, especially if that release points to poor security practices. The FTC has only brought one case against . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 12, 2002

FBI wants to track your Web trail

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday will examine proposed Justice Department guidelines that would give federal investigators new license to mine publicly available databases and monitor Web use. The changes, which come after a major FBI shakeup last week, have sparked . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 06, 2002

Government e-snoop centre set to go live

Criminals will just use stronger encryption, warns expert. The UK government's new internet surveillance centre will become operational this summer, but it could make it harder rather than easier to catch paedophiles and terrorists by encouraging them to use stronger encryption.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 06, 2002

Privacy vs. Security: A Bogus Debate?

David Brin is a privacy heretic. He doesn't agree with those in the intelligence and law-enforcement communities who argue that Americans have to surrender freedoms to make their lives safe. Nor does he agree with advocates who argue that it makes sense to protect privacy at all costs -- certainly not if it means living with added insecurity. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 05, 2002

Why Net filtering is an abomination

The recent ruling by a Philadelphia court in response to a challenge by the American Library Association (ALA) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) represents another setback for Congressional prudes and the filtering software lobby.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 04, 2002

EU snooping law shocks privacy groups

Telcos and ISPs may have to keep logs for four years. A European Parliament anti-terrorism law to allow police to spy on phone and internet users has been slammed by civil liberties groups.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 31, 2002

Privacy team works on RIP killer

As the Home Office prepares to publish a draft code of practice for part three of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act due in June, a small band of privacy advocates are rushing to develop a tool capable of undermining it. The RIP Act proposes to give the government the right to demand the plain text and/or encryption keys for any "information protected by encryption".. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 30, 2002

Privacy bill carries high IT price

A privacy bill that's pending in Congress could have significant IT ramifications for U.S. companies, since passage of the bill would require them to give customers access to personal information they have collected. For firms without centralized databases of that information, compliance would likely be expensive, critics warn.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 29, 2002

FBI's Carnivore-lies may have blown bin Laden inquiry

The Register writes, "Fundamental design flaws in the FBI's infamous Carnivore packet sniffer have led to the destruction of evidence related to a suspect possibly involved in Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network which had been obtained legally under a Foreign . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 29, 2002

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