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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. Fan-diddly-astic by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It sounds like the honour virus to be honest, "We need to monitor you, if you would wear this covert recording hat whilst doing your illegal stuff it would be fan-diddly-astic".

    Will it be illegal to thwart the attack?

    Will it become illegal to use an alternative operating system or antivirus software or even just common sense to deflect these payloads?

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    1. Re:Fan-diddly-astic by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Here's a more interesting thing: Would it be illegal to forward the same trojan to, say, the NSA with the intent to infect and making it look like it's from the German Feds?

      Think of the diplomatic fun we'll all have!

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  2. Honeypot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now wont the terrorists set up their own honeypots for these?

    I think it would be pretty cool to get a trojen written by the government, that sends data back to the government and is read by computers in the most secret government areas... imagine what terrorists could do if they find a bug in it?