Several international law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, held meetings with German police between 2008-12 to discuss the deployment of a monitoring software to covertly infiltrate computers, according to German government reports and reported by Ryan Gallagher at Slate.
The revelations come in response to questions by Andrej Hunko, a member of German Parliament, after a Berlin-based hacker collective called "Chaos Computer Club" exposed in October that the German police were using potentially illegal software called "Bundestrojaner” (i.e. federal Trojan horse) to spy on suspects.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/german-officials-are-teaching-international-police-how-to-secretly-monitor-computers-2012-4#ixzz1rZoXZLaG
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You're welcome Johnny. I found some instructions to get rid of them at youtube, but only in German. If you'll find one in English, please let us know the URL.
AntwortenLöschenNow, CCC is well worth a blog :)
AntwortenLöschenThank you for the inspiration, Mike.
AntwortenLöschenDon't thank me. You'd have been reading about Wikileaks and Anonymous anyway, if I didn't exist. :)
AntwortenLöschenYes, the CCC has a history at least as long as them, as far as I know.
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