Germany Preparing Law for Backdoors in Any Type of Modern Device (bleepingcomputer.com)

Catalin Cimpanu, writing for BleepingComputer: German authorities are preparing a law that will force device manufacturers to include backdoors within their products that law enforcement agencies could use at their discretion for legal investigations. The law would target all modern devices, such as cars, phones, computers, IoT products, and more. Officials are expected to submit their proposed law for debate this week, according to local news outlet RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND). The man supporting this proposal is Thomas de Maiziere, Germany's Interior Minister, who cites the difficulty law enforcement agents have had in past months investigating the recent surge of terrorist attacks and other crimes.

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Re:Obligatory Stasi remark

[admin7087]

Call me old-fashioned but I can't help considering someone ridiculous who apparently gets all his knowledge from Youtube videos. No matter what message you've got, I didn't even check it and don't care, try reading some books first. You can find them in the library.

Re: Define

[Teun]

Which is already (since the Hitler years) illegal.
The Nazi's wrote in law the use of radio waves has to be approved, not only on the transmitter side but also on the receiving end.
Like in Germany you can only buy short wave radios with approved frequencies, on the other side of the border these same radios can receive anything.

The recent banning of child toys with WIFI capabilities was based on this Nazi law, not because of the frequencies used but based on what the radio waves were used for.