kpaste.net RSS- Governments Recruiting Backdoor Authors #germany
- Friday, September 7, 2012 | Posted by Mikko @ 12:17 GMT
- https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002423.html
- Just couple of years ago, it would have been unthinkable that governments would be openly recruiting trojan and backdoor developers to work for them.
- Yet, that's exactly what's happening now.
- For a fresh example, here's an ad[1] from the website of the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA)
- They are looking for a developer. Let's take a closer look at the job description
- Ihre Aufgabe: Mitarbeit bei der Softwareentwicklung und -pflege zur Schaffung der technischkriminaltaktischen Voraussetzungen zum verdeckten polizeilichen Zugriff auf entfernte Rechnersysteme
- Translated to English:
- Your task: Contribute to the development and maintenance of software to provide covert police access to remote computing systems
- This isn't new: We know that German Government has been using trojans against their own citizens[2] before. However, they used to buy their trojans[3]. Now it looks like they are developing their own.
- [1] http://www.bka.de/nn_194250/DE/Berufsperspektive/Stellenangebote/11-2012.html
- [1.2] https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/bka_ad2.png
- [2] http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002249.html
- [3] http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002250.html
Governments Recruiting Backdoor Authors #germany
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