Talk of an RSA Boycott Grows After Reports It Colluded With the NSA
January 4, 2014
A boycott may be brewing against security company RSA’s annual conference, in the wake of reports that the company used encryption technology that had been created by the US National Security Agency in its products in order to create a “back door” in them.
A well-known security researcher has announced that he is boycotting RSA’s annual security industry conference in San Francisco in early 2014, and will no longer deliver a scheduled talk at that event. In an open letter addressed to Joe Tucci, the CEO of EMC, of which RSA is a unit, and Art Coviello, the head of RSA, Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure, said he is “withdrawing his support for the event.”
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