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| "Antivirus-Partners" (Illustration: Thomas Guest) |
Dear antivirus vendors: Are you aiding and abetting National Security Agency (NSA) spying?
That's the subject of an open letter,
sent in October to leading antivirus vendors, from 25 different privacy
information security experts and organizations.
The letter asks the vendors to detail whether they've ever detected state-sponsored malware or received a government request to whitelist state-sponsored malware, and how they would respond to any such requests in the future.
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The letter asks the vendors to detail whether they've ever detected state-sponsored malware or received a government request to whitelist state-sponsored malware, and how they would respond to any such requests in the future.
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The letter, sent from Dutch digital rights foundation Bits of Freedom, requested that the firms respond by November 15. So far, Microsoft, Symantec, and McAfee have failed to respond to this plea for transparency.
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