On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Juha-Matti Laurio wrote: > "The German foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), > has eavesdropped on 2,500 PCs in the last couple of years. > > News magazine Der Spiegel broke the news on its website this weekend. > According to the magazine, information saved on HDDs was copied and > transferred to Pullach, where the BND is headquartered. > In various other cases, keyloggers were installed to capture passwords for > email accounts." > --clip--
It's a big "stink" in Germany now according to a friend. They have been trying to pass laws that will allow the Police to use Trojan horses. I am not too impressed by the civil rights violation accusations. German law (IANA_G_L) includes German citizens. It is not a secret the BND is an intelligence agency nor that they spy on foreigners. I don't see what the big deal is about. The INTERESTING questions here is about the real stink: how was the BND's activity compromised to the press, and is it really just 2500 computers after "several years" of activity? > More at > http://www.itexaminer.com/german-intelligence-tapped-foreign-desktops.aspx > > (if you read German the source link here) > http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,611954,00.html > > Juha-Matti > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
