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Submission + - First use of RIPA to demand encryption keys (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by kylehase on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @05:44AM

kylehase writes: The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) is being used for the first time to force an animal activist to reveal encryption keys for encrypted files she claims to have no knowledge of. According to the article, she could face up to two years if she doesn't comply.

Submission + - OpenBSD, David Maynor smacked down at BlackHat (nyud.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02, 2007 @11:57PM

An anonymous reader writes: The winners of the 2007 Pwnie Awards were announced during an award ceremony at the Black Hat USA security conference last night. David Maynor received the award for Most Overhyped Bug for the media frenzy surrounding the Apple Wi-Fi vulnerabilities he presented an year ago at BlackHat. The OpenBSD project received the Lamest Vendor Response award for spectacularly mishandling a remotely exploitable kernel vulnerability in their IPv6 stack. For a complete list of the winners and nominees, see the Pwnie Awards site.

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