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Tech Specs Leaked For French Spyware

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-see-what-you-did-there dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With the 'three strikes' law now in effect in France, the organization tasked with implementing it, Hadopi, has been working on technology specs for making the process work — and those specs have now leaked. It appears to involve client-side monitoring and controlling software, that would try to watch what you were doing online, and even warn you before you used any P2P protocol (must make Skype phone calls fun). It's hard to believe people will accept this kind of thing being installed on their computers, so I can't wait to see how Hadopi moves forward with it. It also appears to violate EU rules on privacy."

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  1. Not to worry by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The government pinky-promised that they won't use this for anything other than enforcing this law. And you have their *word* on that.

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    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
    1. Re:Not to worry by gandhi_2 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Liberté, égalité, fraternité, and pervasivé monitoré.

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      THL phish sticks
  2. Woot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, nice! Can I have the Linux version?

    1. Re:Woot by kipd · · Score: 5, Insightful

      They came first for the Windows-users, and I didn't speak up because I didn't use Windows...

  3. Good luck with that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What are they going to do? Fucking outlaw Mac OS X, Linux and all the other non-Microsoft operating systems?

    Funny fact: in french it's called système d'exploitation. Maybe that's why they want such software. To exploit you and your computer.