Azerail wrote:
Why is the state of Germany trojanizing applications which may be run by
anyone on the planet?
because this application was used to commit a bad crime - child pornography.
And what's next? Kazaa? IRC? (lord knows IRC can be used to
facilitate crime)
These services are monitored since years.
A "bad" crime is simply a way to introduce the idea
to the general populance with a crime that elicts support, and then
gradually, it's used to encompass other crimes.
Yes every tool can be mis-used in one or another direction. In my eyes
fighting child pornography justifies the step to observe a connection.
Personally, I don't
like the idea of a anon proxy service rolling over and not informing
users, regardless of the crime "some" users may have been committing.
I totally aggree with you that the users should have been informed -
even if it perverts the idea of observation. It is absolutely not ok to
pretend anonymity and not providing it. But Drew was arguing against
the german government and I still think it was correct what they did:
They heard about a crime and tried to prosecute it.
Azerail
/Felix
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