IP: US crypto law cover for industrial spookery

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/990519-000018.html

A clandestine alliance of spooks in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand has been using moves to bring European encryption regulations into line with US crypto law to steal industrial secrets from companies based in the European Union. 

That's the shocking conclusion of a draft report from the European Parliament's Scientific and Technological Options Assessment committee, released last week. 

The report alleges Microsoft, Lotus and Netscape were persuaded by the US National Security Agency to modify their software to make versions shipped overseas better able to collect information of interest transmitted across the Internet. 


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