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Linus Nordberg <[email protected]> wrote: >Hej listan! > >Det här har vi missat att berätta om på listan. En del grejer hamnar >bara på Twitter [1], andra bara på IRC (#dfri_se på OFTC.net). > >DFRI har skrivit under ett brev [2] som ställer några frågor till de >stora tillverkarna av antivirusprogramvara [3]: > >--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >Experts call upon the vendors of antivirus software for transparency > >An international coalition of more than 25 civil rights organizations >and security experts is concerned about the level of security provided >by antivirus software companies. “The users of this software should be >ably to rely on the security of their systems. We fear this might be a >false feeling of security.” says Ton Siedsma of the Dutch digital rights >organization Bits of Freedom. > >According to the coalition, these companies have a vital position in >providing security and maintaining the trust of internet users engaging >in sensitive activities such as electronic banking. There should be no >doubt that your antivirus software provides the security needed to >maintain this trust. > >In the letter, the coalition asks the antivirus companies for >transparency on whether there have been any requests by governments to >not detect the presence of governmental malware and if so, if they have >granted such a request. They furthermore ask how the companies would >respond to such a request in the future. > >“It has become very clear that governments will do anything to gain >acces to as much information as possible” says Siedsma. “Requests like >these, coming from law enforcement agencies or secret services, lower >the general level of protection of all users of antivirus software. The >software isn’t just used by suspects, but by all of us. This is >something to be very concerned about, so we have asked the antivirus >software vendors for transparancy on this matter.” > >The letter has been sent to the following companies: Agnitum, Ahnlab, >Avira operations, AVG, AVAST, Bullguard, Bitdefender, F-secure, F-Prot, >Kaspersky, McAfee, Microsoft, Nod32, Norton, Panda, Symantec and Trend >Micro. >--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > >[1] https://twitter.com/dfri_se/status/394006370887802880 >[2] >https://www.bof.nl/live/wp-content/uploads/Letter-to-antivirus-companies-.pdf >[3] >https://www.bof.nl/2013/10/25/experts-call-upon-the-vendors-of-antivirus-software-for-transparency/ > >-- >DFRI-listan är öppen för alla. >Listan arkiveras och publiceras öppet på internet. >http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.dfri > TH�+-jz���߭�eh����ڮH�z����i��bq�ڲ�^������z�m���v*���ޢ�?�f�z���ǫ��.��_�
