Topic: Online-Fahndung - on November 22, 2007 at 12:47:00 PM CET
Germany seeks malware 'specialists' to bug terrorists
The German government has reportedly started hiring coders to develop "white hat" malware capable of covertly hacking into terrorists' PCs.
The recruitment push signals that the German government is going ahead with controversial plans, yet to be legally approved, to develop "remote forensic software" (AKA a law enforcement Trojan). BKA federal police have been directed by the Interior Ministry to resume the initiative and hire two "specialists"*, AAP reports.
Proposals to give explicit permission for law enforcement officials to plant malware stem from a Federal Court ruling earlier this year declaring clandestine searches of suspects' computers to be inadmissible as evidence, pending a law regulating the practice. Germany's Federal Court of Justice said the practice was not covered by existing surveillance legislation.
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