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Austria Becomes First Country to Officially Sanction Trojan Horse Surv eillance
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:58:59 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The Register. [snip] Austria has become one of the first countries to officially sanction the use of Trojan Horse malware as a tactic for monitoring the PCs of suspected terrorists and criminals. The measures were reportedly discussed in an Austrian cabinet meeting last week and turned over to a group of legal and technical experts to thrash out the details of the scheme. Pending approval, Austrian law enforcement officers could begin using the tactic as early as next year. Austrian measures would parallel those under consideration by Germany thereby "facilitating the international sharing of data found in secret online searches", Heise reports. The policy - announced last week by the Austrian Interior Minister Gunther Plater - is fraught with difficulties, according to security watchers. [snip] More: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/23/teutonic_trojan/ Also: http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/97595 - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHHkRwq1pz9mNUZTMRArm+AKCJdqMignly6imKCXxIVBsgn3eE/gCgzLda db5D0hUVj6bH450l52I30do= =BHF6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ 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.
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