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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Hey Germany,
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Mon Oct 28 20:25:39 2013
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:08:35 -0700
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Hey Germany, remember this story? - 2008: German Authorities Raiding Homes To Find Skype Tapping Whistleblower
http://j.mp/1cet4IQ (Techdirt)
"Apparently a whistleblower recently leaked some evidence that German
authorities were using a special trojan horse software to tap Skype
audio conversations. The document detailing this was leaked to the
German Pirate Party, one of many international "Pirate Parties" that
have been formed in recent years to push for more reasonable
government policies on a variety of fronts from intellectual property
to privacy and government surveillance. Illegally tapping Skype
conversations may be illegal, but it seems that German authorities are
a lot more interested in tracking down who leaked the documents and
have raided the homes of various German Pirate Party members,
confiscating computer equipment. Of course, if anything, this would
seem to confirm that the government was at least experimenting with,
if not actively using, such a trojan horse wiretapping program -- and
the raids have only served to generate much more attention over that."
- - -
False indignation is almost as "amusing" as hypocrisy, eh?
--Lauren--
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