Brexit Deal Mentions Netscape Browser and Mozilla Mail
looorg writes:
Brexit deal mentions Netscape browser and Mozilla Mail:
References to decades-old computer software are included in the new Brexit agreement, including a description of Netscape Communicator and Mozilla Mail as being "modern" services.
Experts believe officials must have copied and pasted chunks of text from old legislation into the document.
The references are on page 921 of the trade deal, in a section on encryption technology.
[...] The document also recommends using 1024-bit RSA encryption and the SHA-1 hashing algorithm, which are both outdated and vulnerable to cyber-attacks.
"It's clear that something is amiss in the drafting of this treaty, and we'd go so far as to venture the opinion that a tired civil servant simply cut-and-pasted from a late-1990s security document," news site Hackaday commented.
[...] The Brexit negotiations finally ended on Christmas Eve, with a deal which was more than 1,200 pages long.
It's possible that not everyone actually bothers to read giant text documents before agreeing to them.
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