Linkbait? Nothing really new here, they 'released' their trojan a while ago, it's been found 'in the wild', the CCC disassembled it. They found MAJOR problems within it, e.g. crypto was a joke. They actually released their own control tool for it [1](GERMAN). Then they found the 'update' capability which basically allowed a loyal servant (or an attacker) to upload and execute whatever they choose to do so.
What drives me mad is ALL OF THIS was paid by federal taxes (not so sure about the 'Billion Euros', but most likely a lot) and all they got was something close to NetBus/SubSeven/Back Orifice (last one developed in 1998!!!). Digitask (a complete joke) is still employed by us and sadly (or maybe luckily) there has been happening not much since then on that front. Politicians keep blaming somebody else and apparently NOBODY outside Digitask has EVER had the chance to analyze the original source code of it (which is in itself a complete hoax). Best of it all, apparently, this entire 'program' has so far not yielded a SINGLE success story.
The post isn't mainly about the trojan but about what else the government admits doing. Yes, it's no secret that Skype, Facebook, Gmail are monitored, but who knew for sure and how much money is spent on that? If you take it for granted that surveillance can happen everywhere all the time: no news. If you're interested in the details: I'd say that wasn't public before.
What drives me mad is ALL OF THIS was paid by federal taxes (not so sure about the 'Billion Euros', but most likely a lot) and all they got was something close to NetBus/SubSeven/Back Orifice (last one developed in 1998!!!). Digitask (a complete joke) is still employed by us and sadly (or maybe luckily) there has been happening not much since then on that front. Politicians keep blaming somebody else and apparently NOBODY outside Digitask has EVER had the chance to analyze the original source code of it (which is in itself a complete hoax). Best of it all, apparently, this entire 'program' has so far not yielded a SINGLE success story.
[1] http://ccc.de/de/updates/2011/staatstrojaner