cross-posted from: https://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.
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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.
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…