[At-Large] Bavarian Police Can Legally Place Trojans On PCs

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

All,

  Is goose stepping next?  One thing is for sure, no traveling to
Bavaria for me!

See:

"The Bavarian Parliament passed a law that allows Bavarian police to
place
'http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Bayerischer-Landtag-setzt-den-Bayerntrojaner-frei%E2%80%94/meldung/110426

Remote Forensic Software' (
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fnewsticker%2FBayerischer-Landtag-setzt-den-Bayerntrojaner-frei--%2Fmeldung%2F110426&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=de&tl=en
Google translation) on a suspect's computer as well as on the computers
of a
suspect's contacts. They may break into houses in secret to install the
RFS if a remote installation is not possible; and while they are there a

(physical) search is permitted too. The RFS may be used to read, delete,

and alter data." The translation says that RFSs may be used in cases of
an "urgent threat to the existence or the security of the Federation or
a
country or physical, life or liberty of a person... Even where there is
a
reasonable assumptions on concrete preparatory acts for such serious
offenses."

Regards,

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