Germany wants to email spyware to suspects
Found on The Inquirer on Saturday, 01 September 2007
German government plods are asking to be allowed to email Trojan horse spyware to terrorist suspects in order to surrepticiously monitor their Internet use and inspect their computer hard drives remotely, the Associated Press reports.
The spyware would be hidden in emails appearing to have been sent from other, seemingly innocuous government agencies such as the Finance Ministry or Youth Services Office.
Do German gumshoes believe that real terrorists won't have capable antivirus and antispyware software installed? One can imagine they'll probably be immune anyway, because they're likely already running OS/X, BSD or Linux.
As soon as they figure out that people use something else than an unprotected Windows, they'll outlaw Linux & Co. Those terrorists who actually fall for such a trojan deserve to be locked up forever.