Freiheit fr Edward Snowden
Lesung der ffentlichen Texte von Edward Snowden durch Andreas Strhle, Arndt Gnther von der Germeringer Band "Abgestaubt" prsentierte seinen Song "Muttis ...
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US Attorney General Eric Holder
Attorney General Eric Holder, the US top law enforcement official, said it is "worrisome" that tech companies are providing default encryption on consumer electronics. Locking the authorities out of being able to physically access the contents of devices puts children at risk, he said.
Holder's remarks, while he did not mention any particular company by name, come two weeks after Apple announced its new iPhone 6 models would be equipped with data encryption that prevents authorities from accessing the contents of the phone. At the same time, Google said its upcoming Android operating system will also have default encryption.
The encryption decision by two of the world's biggest names in tech is a bid to gain the trust of customers in the wake of the Edward Snowden surveillance revelations.
Holder said he wants a backdoor to defeat encryption. He urged the tech sector "to work with us to ensure that law enforcement retains the ability, with court-authorization, to lawfully obtain information in the course of an investigation, such as catching kidnappers and sexual predators."
Recent technological advances have the potential to greatly embolden online criminals, providing new methods for abusers to avoid detection. In some cases, perpetrators are using cloud storage to cheaply and easily store tens of thousands of images and videos outside of any home or businessand to access those files from anywhere in the world. Many take advantage of encryption and anonymizing technology to conceal contraband materials and disguise their locations.
The attorney generalwho plansto step down from the position he has held for six years as soon as a successor takes officeis the highest-ranking member of the President Barack Obama administration to assail encryption in the wake of the Apple and Google announcements.
James Comey, the Federal Bureau of Investigation director, last week said he was concerned aboutthe marketing of smart phones that can't be physically searched by law enforcement.
"What concerns me about this is companies marketing something expressly to allow people to place themselves beyond the law," Comey said. He said the bureau has reached out to Apple and Google "to understand what they're thinking and why they think it makes sense."
It seems that the law is on the tech sector's side, however.
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US top cop decries encryption, demands backdoors
While Linux remains US open source technology provider Red Hat's leading solution, the company aims to move away from being associated solely as a provider of the operating system.
"Linux remains our flagship product. But many people still see us simply as a Linux vendor, although we're much more than that. Today we stand as an end-to-end player of technology products and services based on open source," Paulo Bonucci, Red Hat VP for Latin America, told BNamericas.
Bonucci has been head of Red Hat operations in Latin America for the past 12 months. During this period, he has been working to boost awareness of Red Hat across the region and one of the ways of doing so was through the Red Hat Forums.
The forums consist of roadshow conferences to promote the company's solutions with clients and partners in key Red Hat LatAm markets, but also to discuss business strategies and technology trends.
The 2014 Brazilian edition of the event took place last week in So Paulo, after editions in Santiago and Buenos Aires.
FROM SOFTWARE TO CLOUD
Currently a leader in the open source software segment for enterprises, Red Hat also aims to become a significant corporate cloud player, through the offer of the OpenShift open hybrid platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and, principally, the open source infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) OpenStack.
"With OpenStack, we have a positioning infrastructure for those who want to operate in cloud structures," Bonucci said.
Red Hat is not alone in this venture. In early September, the company announced with Cisco an integrated infrastructure for cloud deployments based on OpenStack. Previosuly, Red Hat did the same for the telecom segment with Nokia.
In Latin America, Bonucci sees Brazil and Argentina "one step ahead" of others in the implementation of open source cloud applications, followed by Chile and some Caribbean islands. Mexico, in turn, has been "more conservative than other regions regarding the adoption of these new technologies," he said.
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Red Hat to move away from Linux brand dependence