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Buggy Bugging Backfires On German Police

Posted by timothy on from the wer-spricht dept.

Alethes writes "The BBC is reporting that German police have been caught bugging cellphones at the expense of criminal suspects who found a unknown and inaccessible voicemail number listed on their bills that was being used to record calls. Telecommunications authorities said that nearly 20,000 lines were currently being tapped."

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  1. Who are you worrying about? by Havokmon · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    "The technical fault arose when we were installing new software," a spokesman for the mobile phone company O2 said.

    How many people are concerned that German police MAY have been involved in illegal wiretapping?

    Now, ask yourself if your concerned with the quality of the software doing your billing at any number of companies..

    "Whoops, we didn't intend to share your personal data with 'Spammers-R-Us', it was a technical glitch during an upgrade. Sorry."

    Maybe if the German police can levy some damages on the phone company, we can feel better about other companies making sure that what they say is private, stays private.

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