- US Government okays life sentence for hackers - J2002
- Senate OKs FBI Net Spying
- Hiding Like Snakes in the E-Grass
- Pentagon Hides Behind Onion Wraps
- US Supremes: Hi-tech surveillance is out
- Supreme Court Declares TEMPEST Illegal
- Your E-Hancock Can Be Forged - open PGP Bug
- Security Vulnerability in OpenPGP!
- Securing FTP and your data transfers
- Secret Messages Come in .Wavs
- Phill Zimmerman Leaves NAI
- HTML E-mail Clients Susceptible to
'Wire-Tapping'
- LeakTest - Is YOUR personal firewall dangerously leaking your personal and
private data onto the Internet?
- Big Brother Capabilities in an Online World
- AIM Flaw Could Open Users' Computers to Attack
- Multiple Vulnerabilities in AOL Instant Messenger - @stake Advisory
- Can researchers cover your Net tracks?
- Prying-Eye Phone Technology Raising Privacy Concerns
- Personal Firewalls not so safe
- Website combines spam with encryption
- Spam Mimic
- Security Against Compelled Disclosure
- Carnivore: Final Technical Review (4.5MB)
- Five Security Experts Look at Carnivore
- FBI's Carnivore review is mixed
On Thursday, August 24 researchers in Germany discovered a serious bug in PGP versions 5.5 through 6.5.3 regarding how those versions handle unauthorized Additional Decryption Key additions to the unhashed/unsigned areas of PGP keys.
Read NAI's Security Advisory and for more information the CERT Advisory
- Serious Bug in PGP - Versions 5 and 6
security.tao.ca gets mentioned in the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center 7/28 advisory!
- Hacktivism May Occur In Connection With Certain Protest Events, July-September 2000; As of 20:00 (Edt) 28 July 2000
NIPC background ( 1, 2, 3)
- Echelon spy system wildly exaggerated - official
- Who's Afraid of Carnivore? Not Me! also in pdf format
- ECHELON: Deaf Ears
- FBI's system to covertly search e-mail raises privacy, legal issues
- FBI spying easier thanks to Y2K
- E-mail snooping will create police state, guru warns
- Crypto Users Can't See FBI.gov
- Hackers stay one step ahead
- New MI5 unit to crack criminal computer codes
- Feds bow to pressure, scrap 'Big Brother' database
- Britain Defends Plan to Snoop on Web Surfers
- Judge orders AOL, Yahoo! to identify online writer
- France introduces legislation requiring all who publish on the Internet to register with the authorities
- Canada says no risk to privacy from giant database
- Britain to Build E-Mail Surveillance System
- Spy agencies join forces to hunt cyber saboteurs