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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