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Germany Plans To Email Trojans

Posted by kdawson on from the we-can-do-it-but-you-can't dept.

speardane sends us word of a proposal in the German legislature to make it legal for that government to email spyware to terror suspects. The action comes in response to a court denying prosecutors' requests to break into suspects' computers over the Internet. The German chancellor supports the measure despite considerable outcry from political opponents and rights groups.

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  1. Re:How is this different? by Rudolf · · Score: 5, Informative

    How is this different from being allowed to tap someone's phone or plant a bug? As long as warrants are involved [...]

    With a warrant you have court approval. This is being done because the court did not grant approval.

    From the summary:
    The action comes in response to a court denying prosecutors' requests to break into suspects' computers over the Internet.