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Re: German president signs spionage law
From: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 10:23:49 -0800
-----Original Message----- From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Jon Kibler Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 8:29 AM To: Martin Tomasek Cc: funsec () linuxbox org Subject: Re: [funsec] German president signs spionage law -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martin Tomasek wrote:Juha-Matti Laurio napsal(a):"German President Horst Koehler signed a legislation to allow theCriminal Investigation Office (BKA) to start online preventive espionage, a measure criticized by the opposition and the German press media.BKA is German police, right? But to the point.. I want to know
whether
they published any information relating to data protection against unauthorized access. I'm interested in it because government organisations tend to allow access to more bureaucrats than neccessary. They also leave security to third parties, like here in Czech Republic: Czech Ministry of interior outsourced IT infrastructure to the Czech Post and Czech
Post
will be privatized in near future. So IT infrastructure for police
and
secret agencies here will be managed by private company. :-) Anyone?That's the way it has been in the States "forever." In fact, last I
saw,
Lenevo still had the contract to install and manage the Pentagon's network infrastructure. Still another artifact of the Rumsfeldian DoD is that 85% of the software for the advanced strike fighter is being developed offshore. Jon K
[TLB:] And it's still absurdly expensive! Anyone notice that the German law exempts "Religious Leaders"? Doesn't that mean that most of the very people likely to be funding and directing terrorist cells, who are self styled Mullahs and Sheikhs, are exempt? _______________________________________________ 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.
Current thread:
- German president signs spionage law Juha-Matti Laurio (Jan 03)
- Re: German president signs spionage law Martin Tomasek (Jan 03)
- Re: German president signs spionage law Jon Kibler (Jan 03)
- Re: German president signs spionage law Tomas L. Byrnes (Jan 03)
- Re: German president signs spionage law Jon Kibler (Jan 03)
- Re: German president signs spionage law Martin Tomasek (Jan 03)