German article on secret computer surveillance recommends OpenBSD
Stefan Wollny <[email protected]>
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Hi, on your page on media coverage regarding your projects you have already some articles published by the German publishing house "Heise Zeitschriften Verlag" who runs paper magazines like c't or iX. But they also have an online magazine named TELEPOLIS (http://www.heise.de/tp). Yesterday (Sept 11th, 2007) appeared an article on TELEPOLIS on the implications on how some terrorist suspects where under surveillance by the authorities by Peter M|hlbauer [http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26165/1.html]. Background of his thoughts are recent discussions in Germany on legalising computer surveillance attacks by the authorities (here known under the keyword "Bundestrojaner"). The suspects are said to have used hundreds of internet cafis and insecure WLAN run by private persons who suddenly are under suspicion for support of terrorists. The author concludes that NOT 99.9% of the population will not be affected by governmental computer surveillance. In fact any Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS or FreeBSD user is at risk. The article finishes "... only users of OpenBSD and GEOS may feel relatively secure - of cause only as long as they don't use WLAN". Additional information from the article: In Germany authorities may legally use any information the get their hands on. Example: User A is under surveillance and receives a mail by user B with some defamation of a civil servant on duty. Though this offence was not spoken out to this civil servant prosecutors may use it against user B! -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gr|_en, STEFAN WOLLNY