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Stories · 2
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B'nai Brith Pushes for Web Regulation
Baldrson writes: "Wired magazine reports that in late August, B'nai Brith Canada tried to get the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) to pay attention to posts on the Islam Way weblog that solicited for volunteers to join Ossama bin Laden. According to the story: "...after media reports have suggested that Montreal and Halifax may have been meeting points for a number of the terrorists involved in the attack, B'nai Brith Canada is stepping up its efforts to get legislation passed to ban such Web activity."" -
Is 'Promis' Software Spying On Canadian Spies?
Legolas-Greenleaf writes: "The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are currently conducting an investigation into a software package called 'Promis,' used by the government, that allegedly contains a backdoor. According to Inslaw Inc. (original makers of Promis), the American and Israeli intelligence services pirated this software package, and resold a hacked version allowing them access. This software is possibly running in some of the RCMP's databases. The Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail has a story on it here, and CNN has a story on it here." The whole thing reads a bit like a Monty Python sketch: a months-long investigation based on sketchy allegations from 1993, claiming some very interesting just-among-pals bureaucratic copyright violations. Hmmm. A handful of Canadian quarters says it's not an open-source product.