Internal Surveillance, External Risks

I've enjoyed the regular back page article Inside Risks in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM) for a number of years. These short articles discuss various risks usually related to computer and information security. The December 2007 article by the equally fascinating collection of authors Steven M. Bellovin, Matt Blaze, Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau, Jennifer Rexford, and Peter G. Neumann (Google them to see who these folks are, if you don't know them already). The article is especially insightful about the risks of government wiretapping and how things can (and have) gone wrong with such systems. The upshot is that someone may be listening in, and it may not be who you think it is: Internal Surveillance, External Risks