From: Dave Aitel (daveimmunitysec.com)
Date: Mon Jan 03 2005 - 09:30:55 CST

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Daniel H. Renner wrote:

>I recall an interview with a highly placed security executive back in
>the later '90s. In this interview he lamented being in the security
>business in the United States with a line similar to:
>
>"If you create and announce a security product in the United States, you
>will very shortly have the NSA entering your premises and demanding 'Ok,
>where is our backdoor?'"
>
>And remember, eEye was started after one of it's co-founders woke up to
>federal guns pointed at his head one fine morning, having been mistaken
>as someone who had penetrated somewhere he shouldn't have.
>
>Not to bash my own country here but, this leads to a question: How can
>any security product, sub-product or service created in the U.S. hold
>credibility even with the good intentions that the creators may have
>originally had?
>
>

It's an interesting question, and Immunity answers it in this email we
sent to DailyDave a while back.

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/dailydave/2004-q3/0206.html

Dave Aitel
Immunity, Inc.
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