In order to monitor encrypted communication, investigators will in future, according to the Senate draft and the Änderungen der Abgeordneten, not only be allowed to hack IT systems but also to secretly enter suspects’ apartments.
If remote installation of the spyware is technically not possible, paragraph 26 explicitly allows investigators to “secretly enter and search premises” in order to gain access to IT systems. In fact, Berlin is thus legalizing – as Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania did before – state intrusion into private apartments in order to physically install Trojans, for example via USB stick.
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As long as they can only do it with a court order and for just that specific instance (no dragnet bulk surveillance shit like in the UK and US) just like they would any other wiretap, then I don’t see the problem.
The scary authoritarian shit is the bulk surveillance without Court oversight such as in Chat Control.
Germany’s government is not in a good place atm. It’s a big coalition between the center-left (SPD) and the center-right (CDU/CSU). After the previous failed coalition of even more parties.
While the far-right populists (AfD) are gaining ground.
The (previously) center-right parties are pushing hard to the right, and the center-left (Social democrats) do not want to stay behind.
This climate has already bred some pretty evil shit esp. wrt immigration, car industry, and senselessly clinging on to the USA as “our friend and ally”. Willingly rolling over whenever Donnie threatens more tariffs.
The topic of this article seems perfectly in tune with everything so far (e.g. this).
coalition of even more parties.
Even more than two?
As a Dutch person, haha. (I don’t actually mind broad coalitions though.)
Due to our 5% hurdle to even get into Bundestag there are not many parties to create coalitions with and they mostly have very different agendas.
The last government failed because one tiny party in the coalition not just refused to corporate but even sabotaged some things. There was no other party in Bundestag to work with because there were only nazis, Russian puppets and the CDU/CSU who were in full opposition mode.
I also believe it would be better to remove the 5% hurdle so there is more to choose from and smaller parties have a chance to gain traction. People would not need to vote for the „lesser evil“, they could just vote exactly what they want.
100%. Every now and again people keep bringing up the idea of introducing a hurdle in the Netherlands as well, and I’m always strongly opposed. It doesn’t even do what people expect it to, and there are other ways to achieve that goal too.
I believe the only ones who profit from this hurdle are the big parties. It’s better for them if there is less choice. I hope for you that it never gets introduced in the Netherlands.
Yes. It was called the Jamaica coalition because of the 3 colors representing 3 parties: black=CxU, yellow=liberals, green=Green, but the SPD (Olaf Scholz) is missing in this picture? I’m confused now. German government has been very confusing dring the past years, and who benefits? Fucking fascists.
The last one was the traffic light coalition, right? Red (SPD), yellow (FDP) and green (Greens)?
If i don’t exit my home then it’s not secret anymore
Stasi 2.0
Only stupider.
For all of America’s faults, keeping jackboots scared to do something like this is one thing we got right.
Every day I understand better why americans need the right to own firearms. Soon we europeans will need it too.
It’s a lot harder to get it back after you already gave it away.
Yeah, because putting in a USB stick is a real solution for a somewhat secure system and not just media bullshit referenced to justify invading private homes at will.
Usbguard, locked bios, and disallowing booting from USB. Good luck to them I guess.
Locked bios doesn’t mean anything if they have physical access to your PC.
They can reset the bios with a jumper, replace your bootloader, forensically image your hard drives and wait for you to boot and unlock your drives so they can grab the keys from memory.
A second trip could install a rootkit/malware because they know your encryption keys.
Wow. I hope people are pushing back on this. Completely outrageous.
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