Source: Judy Dempsey, The New York Times
Nabeel Rajab, president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, has been in jail since pro-democracy demonstrations began in Bahrain two years ago.
Tag Archives: Germany
An attempt to take tools from tyrants
February 18, 2013 – 1:17 pm
Meet the German jazz pianist selling spy software to totalitarian regimes
February 15, 2013 – 1:32 pm
Source: Bastian Brinkmann, Jasmin Klofta and Frederik Obermaier, World Crunch
Martin Münch says he knows who the bad guys are, and that he’s one of the good guys.
Trojans for the Bundestag – German PD acquired Finfisher
January 29, 2013 – 12:23 pm
Source: Don Eijndhoven, InfoSec Island
In December of last year, the German public prosecutors’ office had declared that there was no legal basis for the use of the so-called “Bundestrojaner” spyware, which was used to spy on German citizens.
Wanted: German security developers for new, homegrown spyware
November 5, 2012 – 8:59 am
Source: Cyrus Farivar, Ars technica
Despite causing a minor political scandal in Germany last year, the government-created “state trojan” program appears to be going strong.
Twitter blocks Germans’ access to neo-Nazi group
October 18, 2012 – 1:51 am
Source: Nicholas Kulish, The New York Times
The move was the first time that Twitter acted on a policy known as “country-withheld content,” announced in January, in which it will block an account at the request of a government.
German police monitors Skype, GoogleMail and Facebook chat
October 3, 2012 – 2:44 pm
Source: Annalist
Digitask, a company whose reputation was clearly damaged after its trojan virus was found and analysed by the Chaos Computer Club in 2011, seems to still be a regular contractor of German authorities.
German federal police to develop their own computer surveillance software
September 4, 2012 – 10:48 am
Source: Lucian Constantin, CIO
The Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany, also known as the BKA, is looking to hire software engineers who can develop remote computer surveillance technologies for use in criminal investigations.
Highlights from the 28th Chaos Communications Congress
January 5, 2012 – 12:56 pm
Source: Becky Hogge, Global Voices Advocacy
The Chaos Communications Congress is the annual meetup of Germany’s Chaos Computer Club, one of the oldest hacker collectives in the world.
Germany’s war with Facebook and Google over privacy
December 2, 2011 – 3:58 pm
Source: The Atlantic
When it comes to conflicts with American tech companies, Germany is the anti-China.
German federal Trojan eavesdrops on 15 applications, experts find
October 19, 2011 – 11:13 am
Source: Lucian Constant, PC Advisor
A Trojan used by German law enforcement authorities to intercept Internet phone calls is capable of monitoring traffic from 15 programs, including browsers and instant messaging applications. The discovery was made by malware analysts from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab, who took apart the so-called lawful surveillance software, dubbed 0zapftis, Bundestrojaner or R2D2 by the security community.
