Schäuble demands "detention", internet and mobile ban for "potential threats" - I demand detention, internet and speaking ban for crazy politicians. We could just build a wall around the government district ...
owl - 7.12.2006 - 9.7.2007
BGH facilitates telephone information disclosure of data - and goes with the argumentation Web 2.0. Opt-out instead of Opt-in. When will they finally understand that only Opt-in is fair and correct. No, data is not simply there to enrich companies, just because no one objected.
Freace - The Same Old Pattern - about the usual mindless madness from Berlin, where every failed "terror" attempt is used to justify further erosion of fundamental rights and freedoms. Even though the actual "attack" was banal and botched, and all the means demanded here did not help in prevention at all.
Police defused explosive device in London - Passersby discovered the vehicle. No surveillance cameras (in which the British are pioneers) and no telephone surveillance (in which they are also at the forefront). None of that silly security hocus-pocus, but simply and plainly passersby who found the car suspicious. What do you want to bet that this bomb find will now be used to justify further - ineffective - surveillance measures?
EU and USA have reached agreements on the transfer of flight passenger and financial data - the data trading continues. What can all be justified with the fight against terrorism and how the politicians' brains turn off (do they really believe that no economic espionage would be added to this, or do they just not give a shit?), is frightening. What do we actually have representatives of the people for, if they then behave like traitors to the people?
Google Mail will shut down due to data retention - sounds dramatic, right? Google as a champion of privacy and data protection. I'm laughing now. And those who think that Google is now fighting for its rights: sorry, but what they will probably do is simply block German IP addresses on their service. If at all.
Schäuble considers online searches "essential" - strangely, I feel far more threatened by the rolling madness in Berlin than by any Islamists. The Berlin Prolethicians, who support this nonsense, however, seem primarily threatened by their own population. Why else would they have such broad powers to investigate and examine any citizen at will? Does what is happening there still have anything to do with democratic order?
Music industry wants unrestricted access to user data - because the music industry is above the law. When will this madness end? I have already drawn my conclusions - by largely ignoring the meager work results of the music industry and preferring to stock up on new songs at Magnatune or Jamendo. It's much more exciting there.
Schneier on Security: Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot - our Proletarians in Berlin should perhaps read this too. But for them, one would surely have to translate it into Bild-Speak ...
Yahoo shareholders reject human rights proposals - "The shareholders of the internet service provider Yahoo have followed the board's recommendations and rejected two proposals at their annual general meeting (PDF file) that were intended to push the company towards greater human rights engagement. The proposals, supported by Amnesty International, demanded, on the one hand, resistance against censorship efforts in countries like China and, on the other hand, the establishment of a company-internal committee for human rights." - it's all about money, not about rights or the consequences of one's own greed. They just sell out dissidents to the governments of the countries where they smell big money. Doesn't matter, they're not shareholders.
Reportage: Twenty in a Cage, 24 Hours of Light - "Many of the G8 critics taken into custody had to be released again. Because many were taken into custody solely due to 'suspicious hooded jackets, sunglasses, and scarves' or because of radios in their luggage, explains one of the duty lawyers."
UBERWACH! - funny action. Turn the tables and monitor the monitors!
Federal Council committees for clear expansion of telecommunications surveillance - because, the police state is not yet fully and perfectly established. I hear in the background the cool giggling of former Stasi officials. They are starting to feel quite at home.
BKA investigators searching in the beer garden - rampaging federal agents on the wrong track. Embarrassing.
IT-Chronik - who is behind the eavesdropping interfaces. Are we selling our data, our conversations, and everything else to all those cooperating intelligence agencies. Parliamentary control only rudimentary and in the absence of the public. Big Brother Global.
Like you and me, a terrorist - that's how it starts. We are moving into a state that nobody really wants - except maybe Schäuble. This has nothing to do with a free democratic order in the long run. But about the Stasi, they all made fun of it. Nonsense, the whole thing. Pure nonsense.
Retailers rejoice: Biometric images for health card - can someone explain to me why we need biometric data on the health card? What's the point? The whole thing has become so absurd that you feel like you're living in a satire ...
Amnesty International condemns "politics of fear" - that's how far it's come, that Germany is being condemned by AI. But Berlin will also ignore this and continue. Because fear-mongering sells better than rational action.
Microsoft will identify the unknown internet user - let's build the transparent surfer and applaud it. Stupid. People, get yourself anonymizing proxies. Privoxy is quite easy to install on every system ...
Innere Sicherheit: The Scent of Terror - the use of tried and tested Stasi methods is certainly simply consistent with the current situation. Or so. (read while it is still openly accessible)
individual-i [de] - linked by the raven, pointed out by the eagle owl and no, I don't have a bird. But simply one of several logos in the top right corner of my site, as a sign that individual rights are more important to me than an exaggerated and unrealistic need for security. And the link collection at the raven should be explored as further information.
Google will create psychological profiles from online games - by now, even the last person should realize that "don't be evil" was just a silly marketing gimmick.
Terror-Webseiten: Europol sucht Terroristen im Netz - "According to the Interior Ministry, the German EU Council Presidency also aims to extend Europol's competencies to all forms of cross-border serious crime. This would allow offenses such as the dissemination of child pornography or activities by hooligans to be pursued even more effectively."
Drowning in a flood of data - “You can't prevent anything with such measures” - yes, another Spreeblick link. But really - read it. The interview is brilliant. "By the way: have you ever thought about the fact that one special aspect of suicide bombers is that they are rarely repeat offenders?"
Philip Linden's Folly - about the current efforts of Linden Labs to equip Second Life with an ID verification system. Interesting for German citizens in SL: this service provider collects heaps of data pools, links these to obtain as complete views as possible and makes evaluations, data sales, verifications, etc. which is of course nonsense in the context of age verification: simply enter your father's data and that's it. As a security level, complete nonsense. Piquant: their partner in Great Britain is the GB Group with the product URU, which also offers these services and is subject to EU data protection rules - I can't imagine that it is still legal in this context. And that data is also collected from non-British and non-American citizens directly affects our data protection rules. It would be interesting to see how many Europeans and especially Germans are willing to send their passport number to an American service provider to gain extended access to a virtual world. I fear far too many ...
Schäuble: Germany is "one of the safest countries in the world" - that's why we absolutely need to tighten the laws. What nonsense politicians come up with. And how quickly voters forget that.
Schäuble and Zypries want to extend Paragraph 129 StGB to individual perpetrators - the state's rampage continues. And as expected, the Federal Incompetence (some call her Federal Minister of Justice) immediately caves under minimal pressure. Can we still hope for Karlsruhe then?
Innenministerium: Online-Durchsuchungen längst Usus - because, of course, an official instruction is more important than the constitution.
Fingerprints from passports should not be stored - it would be better not to take fingerprints at all. Especially since the actual benefit of fingerprints in passports is more than questionable if nobody uses this system anyway. Just a reminder: passports are used for identification abroad, and there nobody will be able to do anything with the stored data, due to lack of appropriate devices. So the only possible use is the check upon return to Germany.
Union will den "Schäuble-Katalog" in allen Punkten durchsetzen - allegedly to adjust the legal situation to the threat situation. However, the threat situation has not changed at all, why does something need to be adjusted?
Interior Minister Schäuble wants to overturn the principle of presumption of innocence - Wheelchair Rambo in full swing. 24 in the Bundestag. Say goodbye to the rule of law. Particularly cute: Those who characterize his plans for constitutional amendments as an attack on the constitution would be defaming him: "Those who claim the opposite are playing a vile game with me." - ah, so it's about him? And not about preserving what our constitution guarantees us?
"What the fuck is informationelle Selbstbestimmung!?” - PDF from the ASTA of FH Münster.
Police should be able to automatically access digital passport photos - strange, I can still remember that this type of use was vehemently denied when it was raised by critics.
Privacy advocates sound the alarm: US intelligence agency in control of German bank data - it would be more accurate to point out that they have had direct access since at least 2001 and have used it. This is no longer a potential scenario, it is a fact. And the deadline does not prevent access altogether, but rather prevents further access beyond what has already happened.
USA claim "absolute right" to personal data of Europeans upon entry - and I claim my absolute right that the stupid American data-collecting fascists can go fuck themselves. I'm already fed up with the erosion of data protection and self-determination over information by our federal wheelchair user.
SPD-Speaker: Online searches are definitely coming - The "ghost debates" of data protectionists and other opponents of further authorization for state espionage are not understood by WiefelspĂĽtz, however. It is always pretended that "we are a surveillance state". Meanwhile, no one here is demanding torture or Guantanamo.
Caught in the Network - it begins. A professor receives a visit from security for using TOR. We also have isolated instances of targeting TOR and other systems. Not entirely unimportant given the current paranoia and control freakery of the authorities.
Schäuble: Trojans should also search private diaries - in my opinion, Schäuble's attitude towards the democratic basic order and the constitution is no longer questionable. He has, in my opinion, long since completely left the framework to which he swore an oath of office.
DocuColor Tracking Dot Decoding Guide - Color laser printer technology and code decoded. What they embed in an image to enable tracking of prints (you didn't know they do that? Well...)
Secret online searches are inadmissible - This follows, on the one hand, "from several provisions of search law in favor of the accused" (the BGH counts the right of presence and the calling of witnesses among these), which represent mandatory law and "are not at the disposal of the investigating authorities." The political response to this: Schäuble had already announced that, should the BGH deny the admissibility of online searches based on the current legal situation, corresponding adjustments to the laws would be made.
Schäuble heats up debate on online searches after BGH ruling - As the superior authority of the police, Federal Interior Minister Schäuble demanded the rapid creation of a legal basis for online searches. The Police Union demanded that the new legal regulation also eliminate the obstacles caused by data protection law. - Yes, that really gives you courage. On to the police state.
Off to the surveillance state - a chronology.
User data to be released for danger prevention - sounds nice, doesn't it? But in reality, it means that every police officer can now more or less arbitrarily access customer data from providers. Because prevention and danger prevention - there's no need for any control. Then it goes quickly like stepping on cats ...
General suspicion against all credit card holders - Udo Vetter on the credit card dragnet. He complains. Good.
Two programming positions for the "Bundestrojaner" - the absurdity continues. Our government couldn't care less about civil rights or the constitution. Long strides into the police state. 1984 is so yesterday.
Big Brother in the private computer - Orwell is so outdated ...
BGH bans online searches of computer systems - interesting, how this comes at the same time as Schäuble's rant. And how this article already assumes that politics will bluntly ignore the court's opinion and simply create legal foundations.
Schäuble: Internet is "distance learning university and training camp" for terrorists - especially for state-sponsored terrorists and hate preachers, who then create viruses and trojans to spy on the hard drives of innocent citizens due to their own paranoia. What kind of banana republic do we actually live in ...
Online searches of PCs by law enforcement and intelligence agencies - no statements from the proponents on how they technically envision this nonsense - Trojans forcibly installed on all systems? What about different operating systems - will the use of exotic systems like BeOS soon be an obstruction of authorities and punishable? The demand alone is absurd: that the authorities have too much work with actual on-site operations and therefore want online access. Is that my problem if they have too much work? The demands of the interior ministers have always been stupid and anti-constitutional, but meanwhile they are completely out of their minds.