From Stop Badware (Maxim Weinstein)
The Canadian House of Commons is considering bill C-27 [gc.ca], the Electronic Commerce Protection Act. In addition to providing civil penalties for unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam) and the unauthorized interception of e-mail (man in the middle attacks), it provides for similar penalties for the unauthorized installation of software.
The specifics of the software installation section of the bill are interesting. Read the full story [stopbadware.org]
From Stop Badware (Maxim Weinstein)
The Canadian House of Commons is considering bill C-27 [gc.ca], the Electronic Commerce Protection Act. In addition to providing civil penalties for unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam) and the unauthorized interception of e-mail (man in the middle attacks), it provides for similar penalties for the unauthorized installation of software.
The specifics of the software installation section of the bill are interesting. Read the full story [stopbadware.org]
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