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The FBI is being accused of planting backdoors in the security-focused open source operating system OpenBSD. OpenBSD is used in commercial security products such as firewalls from Calyptix and .vantronix. Thus far, a code audit has not revealed any backdoors in OpenBSD but some bugs have been found.

Earlier this week, OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt forwarded an e-mail from Gregory Perry, former CTO of the defunct security company NETSEC, to the OpenBSD mailing list. NETSEC paid developers to contribute to OpenBSD during the 90s. Perry claims that former NETSEC developer Jason Wright and his development team inserted backdoors into the OpenBSD Crypto Framework under the direction of the FBI - a claim Wright firmly denies. Perry claims to be coming forward now because his 10 year nondisclosure agreement with the FBI has expired.

Following a number of stories over the past week about the release of personally identifiable information, Facebook announced on its developer blog today that it looking into ways to address this.

A recent poll found that most enterprises that have already become infrastructure-as-a-service customers worry much less about cloud security than companies that are only thinking about making the leap. But for the rest of you, security remains the number one concern when considering the cloud. If you're under pressure to take advantage of the benefits of cloud computing, but need to ensure a high level of security, here are a few companies with products and services that can help you make the move without losing sleep.

The reason why Steven Seagal's 80's movies lack relevance for modern day audiences is because if a group of creepy, rogue mercenaries were to abduct us now, we'd be able to ping 10 nearby friends for backup. If you're like us, you're using one or more location-based services that rely on GPS data, phone signal strength or visibility in relation to nearby wireless networks. In other words, through Twitter, Loopt, Brightkite, Foursquare or Google Latitude, your location is sitting in a database. Nonetheless, according to a recent report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, you shouldn't have to forgo your locational privacy to find nearby friends or restaurants.