"... 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... "
This is so ridiculous. I want to see how are they going to plant a Trojan virus on my Linux system. I mean, what are they going to do? Do they thing they can plant Trojans in the official Debian or Ubuntu repos?
If this law is approved I'm going to do exactly the same thing these people are doing: Use the peoples fear in order to get them to approve things they wont otherwise. So I'm going to start telling everyone that the only way to conserve privacy is to use exclusively 100% free software. I mean you don't know if that fglrx driver contains a government Trojan.
As gillbates said: "The most successful terrorism investigations have involved regular, old-fashioned police work". The las time there was this story about three guy who wanted to fabricate explosives for a "major attack". and the police had been watching them for quite a long time, they actually changed the barrels content for some harmless substance. But the media and Schäuble made a big deal out of it.
For these kind of amateurs you really don't need Trojans because you'll get them with other methods, and you will just end up spying a lot innocent people. And if we are talking about talented terrorist, I don't think they will fall in such a cheap trick like a Trojan.
I fear these kind of laws will never help to prevent a REAL threat, but in two or three year we will be seeing how they start using these mechanisms in order to prevent you from downloading a song or a movie.
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"... 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... "
This is so ridiculous. I want to see how are they going to plant a Trojan virus on my Linux system. I mean, what are they going to do? Do they thing they can plant Trojans in the official Debian or Ubuntu repos?
If this law is approved I'm going to do exactly the same thing these people are doing: Use the peoples fear in order to get them to approve things they wont otherwise. So I'm going to start telling everyone that the only way to conserve privacy is to use exclusively 100% free software. I mean you don't know if that fglrx driver contains a government Trojan.
As gillbates said: "The most successful terrorism investigations have involved regular, old-fashioned police work". The las time there was this story about three guy who wanted to fabricate explosives for a "major attack". and the police had been watching them for quite a long time, they actually changed the barrels content for some harmless substance. But the media and Schäuble made a big deal out of it.
For these kind of amateurs you really don't need Trojans because you'll get them with other methods, and you will just end up spying a lot innocent people. And if we are talking about talented terrorist, I don't think they will fall in such a cheap trick like a Trojan.
I fear these kind of laws will never help to prevent a REAL threat, but in two or three year we will be seeing how they start using these mechanisms in order to prevent you from downloading a song or a movie.