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People should be careful if depending on this for anything safety critical.

The German spy agency BND developed a system to monitor the Tor network and warned federal agencies that its anonymity is ineffective“.

There are lots of others reasons to treat it with caution. Won't dig up all the links, but this is a real high priority target for security agenies.

Germany is going for its ANISKI project to study non standardized communication.
Both links are in German but translation services should help.
http://www.zeit.de/digital/dat...
https://netzpolitik.org/2016/p...

Even other EU nations are trying for decryption :)
From Germany
https://netzpolitik.org/2016/p...
Re "Keyboard logging before encryption? lol."
The UK's Code of practice for the use of equipment interference by the security and intelligence agencies can be found at
https://www.gov.uk/government/...
Recall Bullrun, Edgehill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security (6 September 2013)
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

I don't know if the Email posted here (just the screenshot) is also a fake. It seems to be legit.

And here the guys ask for money and for people to mirror the google-nest website.

I don't know if the Email posted here (just the screenshot) is also a fake. It seems to be legit.

And here the guys ask for money and for people to mirror the google-nest website.

This story is mostly nonsense.

There's a thing called ENLETS (or European Network of Law Enforcement Technology Services), which is meant to be "the leading European platform that strengthens police cooperation and bridges the gap between the users and providers of law enforcement technology." From what I can tell it is a sort of advisory committee of law enforcement technology experts, working through Europol, who brainstorm how to use technology to help law enforcement stuff. Currently it gets about €600k in funding, mostly from the EU, some from the UK and the Netherlands. They're asking for that to be increased to €915k. Most of that seems to be in hiring some new full-time advisers; from their personnel costs, they want about 8 people working full time; a leader, a policy officer, and admin person and 5 senior advisers. So if they don't get their budget increase, there's a good chance none of this stuff will happen.

This article is based on a "secret" document (which I think is this one), which is a (draft?) work programme for the group for 2014-2020; so what they're supposed to be looking at.

This document stems from a recommendation by the Council of the European Union that ENLETS look into this kind of thing - the instructions etc. can be found here (or if that doesn't work, search for document 12103/13 on their search page). They asked ENLETS to monitor and coordinate the development of new technologies.

The actual "secret" document is listed on the Council's website (do a search for 17365/13) as "Law Enforcement Technology Services (ENLETS) 2014 - 2020 - Work programme", but the document itself isn't accessible. I don't know whether that's because it's such a minor report (and not really an official EU thing) that they haven't bothered uploading it, or if they are claiming it should be withheld; I'm tempted to make a formal request for it to see what they say.

The five short-term goals they have been asked to look at are in some places a bit scary:

1. Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) - ANPR is well established in many MS. In 2013/14 ENLETS will support those MS who feel the need to enhance their capabilities by sharing best practices. The ANPR systems will be measured by its maturity, capabilities and their deployment.
2. Open Source Intelligence - Open source intelligence is a prioritized topic due to the evolving internet and wireless communication systems. For law enforcement it is a source of information as well as a method of communication. Open source intelligence relates to frontline policing (events, crowd control) and criminal investigations (search for evidence, monitoring and surveillance). In this project the handling of open sources will be assessed and ranked.
3. Signal Intelligence - Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) deploy many kinds of sensors, mostly connected to their IT systems. The sensors need to enhance the operational capability of the LEAs, but often the integration of these sensors and IT systems cause technological problems. Frequently sensor data cannot be integrated, stored or displayed due to the design, protocols and construction of IT systems. What kind of signal intelligence is the most operationally effective and open for integrating the sensors in the EU? What kind of concept will be needed as ever more data is forwarded for processing and more information needs to be analysed?
4. Surveillance - Surveillance uses many types of technology. In this topic focus will be on sharing the best video systems (quality, performance in several scenarios). The purpose of this topic is to match the best standards in video used by the industry to the end user requirements. Privacy enhanced technology and transparency are key issues.
5. Remote St

According to what i understand: The leak is confirmed (1) independently and also by one of the WL partners (4), which claimes it was in relation to Daniel Domscheids Bergs (DDB) return of this data and a human error on the side of wikileaks which resulted in a password and the data being published. It has been known to insiders for some time, claims a known german tech Journalist who wrote (3) in a comment to (1), direct link to his commen (6). Several of these suggest that the handling of the data which was returned by DDB to Wikileaks and the uncontrolled release of the data an password were the reasons for DDB to destroy the remaining WL data instead of returning it. Other sources claim he is wrong.

(1) http://netzpolitik.org/2011/leck-bei-wikileaks-bestatigt/

(2) https://netzpolitik.org/2011/leck-bei-wikileaks/

(3) http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/34/34398/1.html

(4) http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,782923,00.html

(5) http://www.golem.de/1108/85993.html

(6) http://netzpolitik.org/2011/leck-bei-wikileaks-bestatigt/#comment-434548

According to what i understand: The leak is confirmed (1) independently and also by one of the WL partners (4), which claimes it was in relation to Daniel Domscheids Bergs (DDB) return of this data and a human error on the side of wikileaks which resulted in a password and the data being published. It has been known to insiders for some time, claims a known german tech Journalist who wrote (3) in a comment to (1), direct link to his commen (6). Several of these suggest that the handling of the data which was returned by DDB to Wikileaks and the uncontrolled release of the data an password were the reasons for DDB to destroy the remaining WL data instead of returning it. Other sources claim he is wrong.

(1) http://netzpolitik.org/2011/leck-bei-wikileaks-bestatigt/

(2) https://netzpolitik.org/2011/leck-bei-wikileaks/

(3) http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/34/34398/1.html

(4) http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,782923,00.html

(5) http://www.golem.de/1108/85993.html

(6) http://netzpolitik.org/2011/leck-bei-wikileaks-bestatigt/#comment-434548

According to what i understand: The leak is confirmed (1) independently and also by one of the WL partners (4), which claimes it was in relation to Daniel Domscheids Bergs (DDB) return of this data and a human error on the side of wikileaks which resulted in a password and the data being published. It has been known to insiders for some time, claims a known german tech Journalist who wrote (3) in a comment to (1), direct link to his commen (6). Several of these suggest that the handling of the data which was returned by DDB to Wikileaks and the uncontrolled release of the data an password were the reasons for DDB to destroy the remaining WL data instead of returning it. Other sources claim he is wrong.

(1) http://netzpolitik.org/2011/leck-bei-wikileaks-bestatigt/

(2) https://netzpolitik.org/2011/leck-bei-wikileaks/

(3) http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/34/34398/1.html

(4) http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,782923,00.html

(5) http://www.golem.de/1108/85993.html

(6) http://netzpolitik.org/2011/leck-bei-wikileaks-bestatigt/#comment-434548

The german foreign office is headed by Guido Westerwelle, FDP. FDP is the german liberals party, and they have "aligned [themselves] closely to the promotion of free markets and privatisation" from wikipedia.org https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Free_Democratic_Party_(Germany).

netzpolitik.org seems to have documents from a McKinsey survey which support the opposit claim, in particular that Windows single boot would be technically possible and attractive from a user's perspective, but expensive, work intensive and hard to justify [Freely translated from https://www.netzpolitik.org/2011/interne-dokumente-des-auswartigen-amtes-zur-anderung-der-open-source-strategie/#more-20730]

A survey article about the matter can be found at [heise.de http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/Die-Woche-Kein-Linux-im-Auswaertigen-Amt-1191310.html] google translate is http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fopen%2Fartikel%2FDie-Woche-Kein-Linux-im-Auswaertigen-Amt-1191310.html

The article on heise.de has a link to internal documents of the Foreign Office, which shed a little bit different light on the whole thing.

It's being tested in Germany after the nude scanners got bad press. The last I heard was that the system produces a false positive rate that requires near 100% manual screening after the scanning. (Very crude google translation of an according news article)

Sometimes I think it would be acceptable to sacrifice a certain amount of due process in return for reasonable sanctions. A few people who receive the injustice of losing their internet connections is better than the mockery that the RIAA has perpetrated on the US justice system.

Wait, what ?

Just because the USAsian system doesn't work out, the alternative should be this ? I'll tell you something: In Germany, state attorneys apparently have enough of the music & film industries' claims and apparently only act if hundreds to thousands of files are shared (link in German).

Former French Minister and parliament member Toubon explained the link between child porn and internet evilness in this video (he start around min 11:00).

Papers that leaked from the German Federal Ministry of the Interior state that legal regulation allowing so called remote forensic searches exist
- explicitly in Romania, Cypria, Latvia, Spain, and Switzerland,
- implicitly in Slovenia,
and that a similar approach to establish explicit allowance for remote forensic searches is ongoing in Sweden. At least readers in Sweden should contact their members of parliament and do some lobbyism. The current political discussion in Germany only got that public attention beacause some people started what they call nerd lobbyism.

The German papers are available at http://netzpolitik.org/2007/bundesinnenministerium -beantwortet-fragen-zur-online-durchsuchung/

It is also noteworthy that an also leaked draft of a new law regarding German federal criminal police (c.f. CCC press release at http://www.ccc.de/updates/2007/bkaterror) lists several other new or extended competencies.

Criticism claims that Germany is on it's way to reinstate a secret police, with the last German incarnations being http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo.

boycott the mafiaa bastards
creative commons music is fine, we don't need to be pushed around just to enjoy music!
http://www.garageband.com/
http://www.jamendo.com/en/
http://ccmixter.org/
http://www.last.fm/
http://www.myownmusic.de/

and a link collection (in german)
http://netzpolitik.org/ccwiki/index.php/CC-Musik

> Anybody with a link to the original law?

No. And there is a simple reason for that. The law doesn't (yet) exist, it is being discussed at the moment. The draft from the government can be downloaded at http://www.bmj.bund.de/media/archive/1174.pdf

If you can read German, http://www.netzpolitik.org/2006/reaktionen-zum-2-k orb-kabinettsbeschluss/ may be a nice resource.

One of the greatest events around open source in 2005 was for me the penguin-hack of a microsoft lobbyevent in the parliament of berlin. very funny and with lots of pictures: Microsoft in Parliament.