That is absolutely insane! I hope the IT organizations in France fight this. It puts all of them at extreme risk/liability. Clearly the lawmakers are clueless - it is the citizens' duty to overturn this.
Wow... Les On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/25/11 6:48 AM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: >> >> Interesting >> >> http://boingboing.net/2011/04/11/france-to-require-cl.html > > That's crazy ! This has been voted in february, and requires that any > provider has to keep the password and the data needed to check it. > > In other words, you must store a two-ways encrypted password. This is a > MAJOR security risk. I don't even understand how possibly such a law can > have been voted silently without anybody noticed it... > > Time to make some noise around it, now. > > Man, is France worse than Libya, Syria or Iran ?
