Sunday, January 24, 2010

Bruce Schneier: "It’s bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state"

Bruce Schneier in an article at CNN writes:

In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created a backdoor access system into Gmail accounts. This feature is what the Chinese hackers exploited to gain access. (...)

In the aftermath of Google’s announcement, some members of Congress are reviving a bill banning U.S. tech companies from working with governments that digitally spy on their citizens. Presumably, those legislators don’t understand that their own government is on the list.

[Via Reddit.]

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