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GUADEC: Danny O'Brien on privacy, encryption, and the desktop

GUADEC: Danny O'Brien on privacy, encryption, and the desktop

Posted Aug 4, 2010 16:16 UTC (Wed) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)
In reply to: GUADEC: Danny O'Brien on privacy, encryption, and the desktop by JoeBuck
Parent article: GUADEC: Danny O'Brien on privacy, encryption, and the desktop

I had thought RIM was Canadian. Instead of the NSA, it is probably the evil Canadian secret agencies reading the Blackberry's email.

Those Canadian agencies are so secret that I've never even heard of them. They must be good, eh?


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GUADEC: Danny O'Brien on privacy, encryption, and the desktop

Posted Aug 4, 2010 16:30 UTC (Wed) by ofeeley (guest, #36105) [Link]

The manin equivalent would be CSEC. But of course post-911 there's been a flowering of establishments apparently devoted to spying on everything and everyone. FINTRAC is one of newish Canadian spy agencies. It recently got into trouble with the privacy commissioner for having too little governance and accountability w.r.t. privacy.

GUADEC: Danny O'Brien on privacy, encryption, and the desktop

Posted Aug 6, 2010 16:45 UTC (Fri) by ofeeley (guest, #36105) [Link]

s/manin/main/

GUADEC: Danny O'Brien on privacy, encryption, and the desktop

Posted Aug 5, 2010 5:43 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

Crypto AG was Swiss, which didn't stop the NSA from effectively taking them over. They could have their hooks into RIM, maybe with or maybe without the Canadian government's cooperation.

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