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Swiss to Use Spyware to Listen to VoIP
An anonymous reader writes "Heise Security is reporting that the Swiss Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications is entertaining the idea of utilizing the 'Superintendant Trojan', a spyware program designed to allow eavesdropping on VoIP conversations. According to ERA IT Solutions, the creator of the software, it will only be distributed to investigation agencies in the hopes of keeping it out of the hands of malicious hackers since firewalls apparently 'do not present a problem' for the software."
Haha... 4 words. Make that 7, because I don't know how to count.
I can't believe I just read that. They think they can use it and it won't get in the wild? This sounds as smart as the judge in the Spamhaus case, as in, totally clueless about "that there interweb spying softywear".
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
I wonder how they plan to install these things onto the target computers?
hacker: 100kg
sd card: US$124 / 2 grams ($61/g)
hacker's weight in ram chips: $610,000
Thankfully your packets do not travel on any public network...
Oh, wait a minute...
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
Fun facts about Switzerland: 1. Our army needs seven years and 40 billion Swiss Francs (about 30 billion US Dollars) to be ready for war. 2. It's illegal to flush the toilet after 10 pm. (Nobody seems to know, however) 3. My government believes they can bug the VOIP of the country the most Macs per capita.