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."

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Re:In Soviet Germany

[zeromorph]

Shouldn't that be:
In Nazi Germany IBM computers kill you.

And that's definitively not funny. States tend to extend their power as much as people let them do so and Germans have several times in history failed to oppose this tendency. I'm saying that as a holder of a German passport. As far as I can see Germany is currently not worse than the USA or the UK, but some politicians in Germany long for the possibilities the US government currently has or even for more.