[Cryptography] ZDNet: "US government pushed tech firms to hand over source code"

[Perry E. Metzger]

  NEW YORK -- The US government has made numerous attempts to obtain
  source code from tech companies in an effort to find security flaws
  that could be used for surveillance or investigations.

  The government has demanded source code in civil cases filed under
  seal but also by seeking clandestine rulings authorized under the
  secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a person with
  direct knowledge of these demands told ZDNet. We're not naming the
  person as they relayed information that is likely classified.

  With these hearings held in secret and away from the public gaze, the
  person said that the tech companies hit by these demands are losing
  "most of the time."


http://www.zdnet.com/article/us-government-pushed-tech-firms-to-hand-over-source-code/

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Perry E. Metzger		perry at piermont.com