Risking Communications Security: Potential Hazards of the Protect America Act.

Highly respected security researchers Steve Bellovin, Matt Blaze, Whit Diffie, Susan Landau, Peter Neumann, and Jennifer Rexford have released a preprint of a paper they cowrote about the security holes that would be opened if a broad warrantless wiretapping law is passed, reports Slashdot.

The paper states "It is critical that the new surveillance system neither enable exploitation of US communications by unauthorized parties nor permit abuse by authorized ones."

New security risks, risk reduction, architectural choices, oversight and recommendations are among the areas addressed in the paper.

To see the complete preprint of the article to appear in IEEE Security and Privacy, go to Risking Communications Security: Potential Hazards of the Protect America Act.