Hacker group accuses German government of using illegal Trojan horse

(PhysOrg.com) -- Governments all over the world are wrestling with the legalities of computer snooping in their efforts to catch people doing illegal things, or to prove that wrongful acts have been committed after the fact. Now comes a blog posting by a well-known hacker group that calls itself the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), accusing the German government of overstepping its bounds by infecting suspected criminal’s computers with a Trojan horse program that allows it to do more than has been granted by law.

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