Published: 12 Sep 12 12:18 CET | Print version
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Germany’s top data protection official has complained he cannot test how a spy computer program used by the police works – because the firm that made it will not help him examine it and the police do not have the source code.
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And now, only about two decades later, the modern world must be a Stasi official's wet dream... sure, most of the time, you don't have people physically staking you out and following you around anymore and keeping hand typed files on you, like in the award-winning movie "Das Leben der Anderen"... but then, with today's technology, you don't have to anymore. All you need to do is pull that person's file which has been generated automatically by a person's online activities (think data retention, or more recently, mass mobile phone cell queries as carried out illegally by the governments in Saxony and Hamburg) Or you slip them a trojan on their computer.
It's shocking when you think that today's world is more and more becoming a continuation of the East German stasi state.
Oh yeah, and hidemyass/shieldsup/etc aint gonna help you against "big bro" (NSA/GCHQ/etc tech capabilities are damned scary)...
You're right ofcourse but why make it too easy for them. Secure VPN, Firewall, antivirus, bot/spam remover ect.
When they install this trojan on your PC, it doesnt matter what you use, it is operating FROM your PC, and I assume there is no antivirus/antimalware software that knows about this trojan, thus it cannot be detected.
That would be incorrect, AFAIK, most antivirus software can currently detect/remove it. Of course, new variants can be released into the wild at any time and these may not be detected for a while. However, the more comprehensive antivirus packages have measures to limit the possibilities for files downloaded from the Internet and to detect/prevent behaviour like that of a virus or trojan for all unknown programs.