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McAfee Won’t Let Foreign Governments Review Their Code

October 27, 2017
Symantec CEO Calls Governmental Code Reviews Dangerous
Security & Fraud // October 11, 2017

Cybersecurity firm Symantec is putting the kibosh on its former practice of allowing governments to review the source code of its software. According to Symantec Chief Executive Greg Clark, allowing such inspections runs a high risk of the security of its products being compromised. The...

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McAfee Won’t Let Foreign Governments Review Their Code

October 27, 2017
McAfee, the security software company, is no longer allowing foreign governments to look over the source code of its products, stopping a practice that security experts have cautioned could enable nations to conduct cyberattacks. According to news from Reuters, a company spokeswoman told the news service that it stopped permitting the government reviews earlier in […]

Symantec CEO Calls Governmental Code Reviews Dangerous

October 11, 2017
Cybersecurity firm Symantec is putting the kibosh on its former practice of allowing governments to review the source code of its software. According to Symantec Chief Executive Greg Clark, allowing...