Snowden RSA Controversy Just One Of Many Facing Security Industry

The article reports on controversy ahead of the RSA Conference after Reuters and Snowden leaks suggested RSA (the company) accepted payment from the NSA to set the flawed Dual EC DRBG random number generator as the default in its BSafe product. RSA denies knowingly choosing a weakened standard; NIST later advised against Dual EC DRBG, customers were urged to stop using it, and the story has prompted speaker withdrawals and a protest conference, though the piece frames this as reputational and industry discussion rather than a technical incident report.