Re: German president signs spionage law

["Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>]

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> To: Martin Tomasek
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> Subject: Re: [funsec] German president signs spionage law
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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
[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?




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