Re: German president signs spionage law

[Jon Kibler <Jon.Kibler () aset com>]

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Martin Tomasek wrote:
> Juha-Matti Laurio napsal(a):
> > "German President Horst Koehler signed a legislation to allow the Criminal 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
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