Suing The Japanese Gov't For Stopping A Talk On Security Holes In Their System
from the whoops dept
An American computer security expert, Ejovi Nuwere, has sued the Japanese government for trying to stop a talk he was giving about security problems in the Japanese government's online citizen registry network. Nuwere did a security audit of the system and found some problems with it -- but rather than work on ways to fix them, it appears the government just decided they should sweep it under the rug and not let Nuwere talk about it. They put pressure on the conference organizers and eventually told Nuwere he had to remove a conclusion slide from his presentation. Of course, as with so many security by obscurity attempts, the act of trying to make this go away quietly is suddenly making the issue much more well known.
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