German cops use Trojan to tap Skype: report
p2pnet news view Politics | P2P:- Police raided the home of a German Pirate Party after it published a leaked document showing the government uses a homemade Trojan to tap Skype calls and intercept traffic to encrypted websites, says TorrentFreak.
“In addition, a server from another party member was seized,” says the story, going on »»»
The Pirate Party, Piratenpartei Deutschland, is known for it’s battle against the ever increasing government surveillance on the public. So, when an anonymous whistleblower sent them a internal document which showed that the government went as far as installing trojans on computers, they didn’t hesitate to publish it.
The server, seized earlier in the week, was fully encrypted, “so chances are low that it will uncover the whistleblower,” says the story, quoting Andreas Popp, chairman of the Bavarian Pirate Party, as stating:
“A brave person leaks documents to the Pirate Party, to inform the public about a procedure of the Bavarian Government, which is highly likely to violate the constitution. Now this persons is hunted like a criminal. Private rooms are raided, servers get seized.”
TorrentFreak – Pirate Party Official Raided after Uncovering State Trojan, September 17, 2008
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September 18th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
In western world, this is called democracy and freedom of expression.