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Germany Seeks Expansion of Computer Spying
gooman writes "The LA Times reports on a proposal to secretly scan suspects' hard drives which is causing unease in a nation with a history of official surveillance. Along with several other European countries, Germany is seeking authority to plant secret Trojan viruses into the computers of suspects that could scan files, photos, diagrams and voice recordings, record every keystroke typed and possibly even turn on webcams and microphones in an attempt to gain knowledge of attacks before they happen."
as always I have no mod points when I need them
and what about DOS? Imagine all the criminals migrating back to teh mighty DOS and the endless pain that govt would have to adapt...
10 PRINT HELLO WORLD!
20 END and so on