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("Security Advisory")
Submitted by: Bill Hickey
NCVA List Master
NRT-0476 German Legislation Allows Police to Use Viruses in Surveillance Operations:
Germany is moving ahead with a bill to permit police to remotely use virus attacks to
extract evidence from a suspect's computer. The legislation is consistent with a
Constitutional Court ruling in February 2008 that attached strict conditions to such
intrusions, including obtaining a court order and only doing so to protect lives or
public utilities. German ministers are to discuss whether to give police new powers
to physically plant bugs near computers.
The German police surveillance will use white-hat virus techniques that exploit flaws in
computer programs. Police computer experts will try to trick a suspect online into
inadvertently installing a virus that sends computerized secrets via the internet to a
waiting police team.
(feeds.bignewsnetwork.com 16APR08)