Berlin: Police can secretly enter homes for state trojan installation
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/54414754
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.
Berlin: Police can secretly enter homes for state trojan installation
To collect data from IT systems, investigators in Berlin can secretly search suspects' rooms. This is in a Police Act amendment.Stefan Krempl (heise online)
solrize
in reply to schizoidman • • •In the US it's always been possible to do this with a proper warrant, though avoiding detection if the person expects something could be difficult. Security cameras and so on.
I'm not too bothered by this given how much work it is. They will only do it if there's a criminal case or some other significant interest to work from. It's not a tool of warrantless mass surveillance even though it's been done abusively/illegally from time to time.
7bicycles [he/him]
in reply to solrize • • •Significant interest has, just to name a few, lead to german SWAT storming the wrong appartment because somebody who used to live there called a politician a wiener on facebook. And also locking down entire main train stations for hours on account of some guy or at best a "super recognizer" saw what looked like the AI aged version of an RAF member. Or confiscating literally every electronic from someone because they used chalk spray on something (which is not vandalism as ruled by many judgements because it just washes off).
reagansrottencorpse
in reply to 7bicycles [he/him] • • •birdwing
in reply to solrize • • •solrize
in reply to birdwing • • •I think those are two different things. They might do 1000s of secret break-ins per year, maybe 10,000's. But probably not millions. OTOH, mass surveillance is used against just about everyone, i.e. billions. So the scale is different.
Here in the US, I suspect secret break-ins are rare, because they are risky (armed occupants etc). So they do SWAT raids instead. Abusive and too often fatal, but not that secret.
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Bloomcole
in reply to solrize • • •Chat control being one of them
grey_maniac
in reply to solrize • • •solrize
in reply to grey_maniac • • •eleitl
in reply to solrize • • •People who run a tight ship will have a small attack surface.
Burnoutdv
in reply to solrize • • •Fossifoo [comrade/them]
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in reply to schizoidman • • •any site where I can download this cool spyware and run it so they don't enter my home? Does it run on Arch Linux?
Wonder if they'd install it on all devices or only my desktop since I have all others with me at all times...
RiverRock
in reply to schizoidman • • •Something something european democracy something something bulwark against Russian Chinese authoritarianism, something something east german stasi
Such hollow, opportunistic rehtoric from people and governments who are doing the exact same things they accuse others of. Germany in particular, with it's to-the-hilt support of Israel's genocide, does not seem to have learned it's lesson.
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in reply to RiverRock • • •fascists generally accuse others of what they are doing themselves. like how some of the most homophobic ones are sometimes secretly very gay.
because these people's politics aren't based on facts, but their feelings, ironically.
widowdoll
in reply to RiverRock • • •National leaders only pretend to be opposed to each other.
In reality, they all know that their citizens are slaves to make them richer.
MonkderVierte
in reply to schizoidman • • •MonkderVierte
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in reply to quick_snail • • •quick_snail
in reply to schizoidman • • •This is kinda silly. Most implants are installed by the NSA at the airport when you buy the device.
It's much easier for them to install implants on devices at the time you order it than to break into your house.
Lowleekun [comrade/them, he/him]
in reply to quick_snail • • •It is not silly, it is oppressive. Sure it is easier to install malware at the airport, but now they got "legal" ways of entering your apartment without your knowledge. This would make planting evidence so much easier. I am not saying we are at this point were the police plants evidence to get a case against someone but it is paving the road.
Why implement the law in the first place? Because it makes it easier for the people to live with the oppression. We sure like to believe we are free.
quick_snail
in reply to Lowleekun [comrade/them, he/him] • • •Sure, it's bad. But it shows they're inept.
It's pretty damn hard to enter someone's home without your knowledge, when so many homes and apartment buildings have cameras everywhere these days..
reagansrottencorpse
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