Comments on: Germany wants to sic spyware on terror suspects

Conservative government is backing a proposal allowing authorities to transmit Trojans to suspects through official-looking e-mails. Opposition parties and privacy advocates cry foul.

[WJeansonne]

Leftists are trully stupid and retared throughout the world

What a joke. To complain about Germany's attempts to foil terrorists. I just shake my head in wonder, just how stupid do you have to be a liberal leftist.

[eurobloke]

Leftist? The CDU is a right-wing party

Leftist? The Christian-Democrats are Germany's main central-right party.

The parties from left to the right in Germany are; The Left Party (the former Democratic Socialists), the Social-Democrats, the Greens, the Free Democrats, the Christian-Democrats (and the CSU in Bavaria).

[unknown unknown]

RE

If they say it's to combating terror or child porn, I think people with similar logic would let them get away with just about anything.

[WJeansonne]

Oops. A More Accurate Title -- Terrorist Huggers

Far more succinct!

[JunkSiu]

Go back to old time

Start using text base email on linux, LOL.

[canettijazz]

Stop the leak

I see no problem discussing or proposing such techniques. The
problem is the opposition (in an elected government position)
leaking the info and potentially compromising national security.
The situaiton in Germany is similar to the brohaha over the US
filtering internet content. I have absolutely no problems with
filtering keywords through a internet pipeline. This is a mass
search. If something subsequently turns up with a specific
computer, then a subpeona would be warranted.

[chuck_whealton]

Re: Stop the leak

I fully agree with you. Unfortunately, many will consider us bad people because it doesn't bother us.

I'm sure those same people would feel differently if their loved ones were killed by those the German government is seeking to identify and stop.

Charles R. Whealton
Charles Whealton @ pleasedontspam.com

[niravabhavsar]

Oversight is necessary

They need to make sure watergate doesn't happen in the name of fighting terrorism. Btw, when did Germany start having terrorism related incidents?

[Phillep_H]

Since when?

Well, I was going to say "since the end of WWII", then I remembered the Brown Shirts.

Different groups at different times, is all.

[dcneocon]

Sic Spyware on Terror Suspects?

Ya kow, I've been a CNET reader for more than a dozen years.
Until now, I've yet to have been moved to comment on story. I've
one word to comment on the German gov't's spyware hopes:
RISIBLE.

That scheme is as goofy as the one the federal gov't goons in
Washington,DC used to drag the world into another stupid
war...and, frankly, the sales job on maintiaining a "troop surge"
you'll barely be able to escape in this Sunday's NY Times, next
weeks Wall Street Journal editorial page, tonight's Newshour and
Brooks and Kristol's pandering Sunday talk show pandering.

Honestly, what "terror" suspect would be as dumb as the US
money-laundering mafioso whose residence was FBI "sneaked n
peeked", his computer infected w/spyware to beat the
encryption algorithms he'd installed, to not keep a simple
firewall log active to recoerd to which addresses, and when, his
system linked. Yesh, we've got some pretty unsophisticated
criminals here in the US but, really folks, what "terrorist" really's
goin got be that freakin' stupid? Gov't-installed spyware--even
if certain anti-spyware firms have agreed to exclude such gov't
designed and installed applications from their reports- a truly
dumb-ass idea.

So, dear Germans, please go right ahead! I'm sure the US-gov't
isn't far behind...which may explain why it's still hoping its
upcoming two-week sell job on it's electorate to support the
"surge" til April '08 will work.

Right.

[Stating]

Nixon and J. Edgar Celebrating

Nixon and J. Edgar are celebrating in hell at the thought of remote, armchair spying. Oh, Spiro says "Hi" by the way.