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- Richard Medhurst: Just listened to a talk at CCC about German police tactics against pro-Palestine - sashimi December 29, 2025, 1:01 pm
Posted by sashimi
on December 29, 2025, 1:01 pm
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- activists. They've recently introduced a new law to allow Berlin police to secretly enter people's homes, install spyware/ Trojans and yeet without a word. Like spooks. How lovely & democratic -- https://nitter.net/richimedhurst/status/2005621187095707994 29 Dec 2025 · 12:45 PM UTC (CCC is the annual Chaos Communication Congress run by the Chaos Computer Club) -------- Berlin: Police can secretly enter homes for state trojan installation Stefan Krempl, 5 Dec 2025 https://www.heise.de/en/news/Berlin-Police-can-secretly-enter-homes-for-state-trojan-installation-11103284.html Law provides for massive tightening A bone of contention is the combination of digital surveillance and physical intrusion: 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. The explosive innovation is hidden in paragraphs 26a and 26b. These regulate so-called source telecommunications surveillance (Quellen-TKÜ) and secret online searches. In order to intercept communication on devices such as smartphones or laptops before or after decryption, the police may use malware such as state Trojans. But the new Police Act goes a step further: 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. IT security experts not only warn about leaving vulnerabilities open. They also see a constitutional violation in the combination of residential space violation and digital investigation. |
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