While The German federal government has denied it is using R2D2, according The Register it's also possible that a German state police agency may be using it independently.
According to CCC precise analysis revealed once again that law enforcement agencies will overstep their authority if not watched carefully.
In this case functions clearly intended for breaking the law were implemented in this malware: they were meant for uploading and executing arbitrary code on the targeted system.German wiretap laws permit the use of a so colled `bundestrojaner´ also `federal Trojan´, to spy on criminal or terrorist suspects by recording their Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) conversations, such as those transmitted over Skype.
But sure, if R2D2 is indeed the bundestrojaner, its abilities are far beyond what the laws permit.
I think that in today´s Germany must be real carefully, becouse this is a like echo from past.
Now R2D2 can be downloaded for free at Bitdefender's website, and Baden-Württemburg, Brandenburg and Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein there confirmed (12.10) that their police agencies had used bundestrojaner by state. But all insisted they would had done so within the scope of the law. but one, federar´s sixth Bavaria, said it had used an unspecified spyware program.
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