Revisiting the potential hazards of the 'Protect America' act

In light of recent news reports about NSA wiretapping of U.S. Internet communications, folks may be interested in some background on the ‘warrantless wiretapping’ provisions of the Protect America act, and the potential security risks such wiretapping systems can introduce. Here’s a 2007 article a group of us wrote entitled “Risking Communications Security: Potential Hazards of the ‘Protect America’ Act”. http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jrex/papers/PAA.pdf