Wiretaps through Software Hacks to Get Legal Scrutiny

Thursday, June 6, 2013 - 15:20 in Mathematics & Economics

Earlier this year a group of researchers published a controversial idea for giving law enforcement access to suspicious electronic communications. Instead of forcing tech companies like Facebook and Google to build backdoors into their software , the researchers suggested law enforcement simply exploit existing vulnerabilities in Web software to plant their digital wiretaps. [More]

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