[free-sklyarov] MSNBC story -- Consumer rights

[Tabinda N. Khan]

Quoting Jon O .:
> Do they test encryption? I think part of the problem is no
> large agency tests this stuff except for the FBI, NSA, etc...

Not that I've heard of. They are consumer-oriented and it
seems that encryption has not inserted itself into the minds
of most Americans when they think of consumer products.

But I was thinking more generally. They have a history of 
breaking products the manufacturers deemed unbreakable, the
are free speech advocates, they are willing to take on large
corporations, and they have been reviewing PCs, DVD players,
etc. for some time.  They might be persuaded to take action
if they realized that it was illegal for them to test
consumer products in the future to check privacy claims, for
example, even if they aren't testing them in that manner now. 

Tabinda

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