According to CBS News, in December 2006 a US customs’ officer performed a random search of a laptop that was found on the back seat of a car belonging to a Sebastien Boucher. After the officer found files with names such as “Two year old being raped during diaper change,” he charged Boucher with “transporting [...]

For quite some time, the issue of whether or not cryptography should be subjected to governmental control was very hot. A little over a year ago I wrote a research paper defending the side of privacy activists who claim that its usage should be unrestricted.

I shared their view until very recently when I read about a new computer virus, Gpcode, which uses RSA to encrypt a victim’s hard drive and demand ransom for data on it. [...]