An Open Letter to the Chiefs of EMC and RSA 23rd Dec 2013 <http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002651.html>
An Open Letter to: Joseph M. Tucci - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, EMC (and) Art Coviello - Executive Chairman, RSA Dear Joseph and Art, I dont expect you to know who I am. Ive been working with computer security since 1991. Nowadays I do quite a bit of public speaking on the topic. In fact, I have spoken eight times at either RSA Conference USA, RSA Conference Europe or RSA Conference Japan. Youve even featured my picture on the walls of your conference walls among the 'industry experts'. On December 20th, Reuters broke a story alleging that your company accepted a random number generator from the National Security Agency, and set it as the default option in one of the your products, in exchange of $10 million. Your company has issued a statement on the topic, but you have not denied this particular claim. Eventually, NSAs random number generator was found to be flawed on purpose, in effect creating a back door. You had kept on using the generator for years despite widespread speculation that NSA had backdoored it. As my reaction to this, Im cancelling my talk at the RSA Conference USA 2014 in San Francisco in February 2014. Aptly enough, the talk I wont be delivering at RSA 2014 was titled "Governments as Malware Authors". I dont really expect your multibillion dollar company or your multimillion dollar conference to suffer as a result of your deals with the NSA. In fact, I'm not expecting other conference speakers to cancel. Most of your speakers are American anyway why would they care about surveillance thats not targeted at them but at non-Americans. Surveillance operations from the US intelligence agencies are targeted at foreigners. However Im a foreigner. And Im withdrawing my support from your event. Sincerely, Mikko Hypponen Chief Research Officer F-Secure -- Ref: https://blogs.rsa.com/news-media-2/rsa-response/ "About RSA: The Security Division of EMC, is the premier provider of security, risk, and compliance- management solutions for business acceleration. RSA helps the worlds leading organizations succeed by solving their most complex and sensitive security challenges. These challenges include.. combining business-critical controls in identity assurance, encryption & key management, SIEM, Data Loss Prevention, and Fraud Protection with industry-leading GRC capabilities and robust consulting services, RSA brings visibility and trust to millions of user identities, the transactions that they perform, and the data that is generated." Message sent using MelbPC WebMail Server
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