Are They Taking Away Our Freedoms? Today, access to information has never been freer?and yet we seem to live in an age of deepening secrets.
More on Greek Wiretapping: It turns out that the "malicious code" was actually code designed into the system. It's eavesdropping code put into the system for the police. [...]
There is an important security lesson here. I have long argued that when you build surveillance mechanisms into communication systems, you invite the bad guys to use those mechanisms for their own purposes. That's exactly what happened here.
UK parents to get online check of 8m child workers records: The Bill, which is intended to widen and centralise the vetting of people working with children (approximately 8 million individuals), will allow (indeed, compel) employers, including parents hiring nannies and childminders, to check the records of potential employees online.
