Risking Communications Security: Potential Hazards of the Protect America Act
Bellovin, S.M.
Blaze, M.
Diffie, W.
Sun, S.L.
Neumann, P.G.
Rexford, J.
Columbia Univ., New York;
This paper appears in: Security & Privacy, IEEE
Publication Date: Jan.-Feb. 2008
Volume: 6,
Issue: 1
On page(s): 24-33
ISSN: 1540-7993
INSPEC Accession Number: 9775701
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/MSP.2008.17
Current Version Published: 2008-02-07
Abstract
A new US law allows warrantless wiretapping whenever one end of the communication is believed to be outside national borders. This creates serious security risks: danger of exploitation of the system by unauthorized users, danger of criminal misuse by trusted insiders, and danger of misuse by government agents.
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