German Government infected citizens with trojans for spying

[Gimgak]

Germany's Chaos Computer Club published the sourcecode for a piece of malware used by the German government to spy on citizens. The software was discovered in the wild and reverse engineered. It can be used to spy on or control remote PCs. Because of flaws in the software, anyone who was infected with this by German police was vulnerable to spying by "anyone on the street." The German supreme court banned the use of trojans to spy on German citizens in 2008.

http://boingboing.net/2011/10/10/chaos- ... ck-it.html

Always good to know the gestapo police is watching out for the Untermensch average joe in the fatherland germany.

What a world we live in 😛

 

[Deleted member 1609]

Re: German Government infected citizens with trojans for spy

Orwell was right! He was just off by two or three decades.

 

[froggyboy604]

Re: German Government infected citizens with trojans for spy

Does this also affect Linux, Unix, and Mac Users?

This is odd that the German government don't trust it's own citizens which voted them into office.

I wonder what are the chances of the current German government being re-elected if this gets more media attention in Germany.