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Quotes from this issue:

“Although it’s most commonly called a worm, Storm is really more: a worm,
a Trojan horse and a bot all rolled into one. It’s also the most
successful example we have of a new breed of worm, and I’ve seen
estimates that between 1 million and 50 million computers have been
infected worldwide.”

UK Police Can Now Demand Encryption Keys: “Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton said in May of
2006 that such laws would only encourage businesses to house their
cryptography operations out of the reach of UK investigators,
potentially harming the country’s economy. ‘The controversy here [lies
in] seizing keys, not in forcing people to decrypt. The power to seize
encryption keys is spooking big business, ‘ Clayton said.

“‘The notion that international bankers would be wary of bringing master
keys into UK if they could be seized as part of legitimate police
operations, or by a corrupt chief constable, has quite a lot of
traction,’ he added. ‘With the appropriate paperwork, keys can be
seized. If you’re an international banker you’ll plonk your headquarters
in Zurich.’”

“Microsoft updates both XP and Vista without user permission or
notification. Microsoft can do this; that’s just stupid company stuff.
But what’s to stop anyone else from using Microsoft’s stealth remote
install capability to put anything onto anyone’s computer? How long
before some smart hacker exploits this, and then writes a program that
will allow all the dumb hackers to do it? ”

London’s 10,000 security cameras don’t reduce crime:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23412867-details/Tens+of+thousands+of+CCTV+cameras%2C+yet+80%25+of+crime+unsolved/article.do
or http://tinyurl.com/286pab
This is a follow-up to a 2005 article:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-16856213-details/CCTV+’does+not+stop+crime’/article.do
or http://tinyurl.com/2tfjyf

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