Nobody Encrypts their Phone Calls
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From the Forbes blog: In an annual report published Friday by the U.S. judicial system on the number of wiretaps it granted over the past year …, the courts revealed that there were 2,376 wiretaps by law enforcement agencies in 2009, up 26% from 1,891 the year before, and up 76% from 1999. (Those numbers, it should be noted, don’t…
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