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" German export law prohibits malware from being shipped directly to Turkey, according to DW."
Good idea. Do you think they could make it illegal to ship malware *anywhere* ?
Finfisher malware authors fire off legal threats to silence German journos
Malware authors behind the Finfisher spyware suite, well beloved by dictators, have sent legal threats intended to silence a German news blog that reported them to criminal prosecutors over allegedly illegal malware exports. "Our reporting on the criminal complaint [we filed] against the producers of the state trojan-horse …
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Thursday 10th October 2019 17:49 GMT b0llchit
You may want to probe the archive for full coverage. They too will get a cease and desist. Then all of us will see circling helicopters and black suit teams doing high speed chases in our brain paths. Welcome to the internet; love and kisses from dear Streisand.
Oh, BTW, the max. penalty of 5 years (after German law) would be too easy on the malware pushers. The entire CxO class, all developers and sales drones at Elaman GmbH, FinFisher GmbH and Finfisher Labs GmbH should be charged with assisting torture and murder.
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Thursday 10th October 2019 20:29 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Should be a quick court case
It doesn't alter the fact that these low life pond scum clearly engaged a lawyer who suggested to them that a policy of nonresponse would allow them to claim they had not had an opportunity to respond. One assumes it was a deliberate tactic.
Fortunately German lawyers are not nearly as expensive as British or American ones, and German judges seem to be as sensible as ours*, so this could end well.
*i.e. English. Who's the German equivalent of Lady Hale?
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Sunday 13th October 2019 09:54 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: We have asked Finfisher's authors whether they wish to comment
"... no, of course it wouldn't open in that sandbox. And you mean, you tried it in a pristine 'puter without a 'net connection [shakes head]?!?"
Hmmm, an Anonymous Coward that can still post icons?
What kind of dark magic is this?
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Friday 11th October 2019 11:58 GMT David Lawrence
Comedy moment of the year
" German export law prohibits malware from being shipped directly to Turkey, according to DW."
Wait..... what???? I nearly ruined my keyboard as I read that. Can that really be true - that they actually have legislation that specific about...… malware?
Clearly they have high standards that must be upheld at all times. Why, we wouldn't want our malware shipped to such a dreadful place would we? Nonono. We only want to ship our malware to nice places, where human rights are respected, the quality of living is high, the beaches are clean, and (perhaps more importantly) the financial gains are greater...…...
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Friday 11th October 2019 13:40 GMT antman
Docs
The original article is in the Wayback Machine archive. PDFs of the complaint and appendix in English are stil available from Netzpolitik:
https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2019/09/2019-07-05_FinFisher_Criminal-Complaint_ENG.pdf
https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2019/09/2019-07-05_FinFisher_Criminal-Complaint_Technical-Appendix_ENG.pdf
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Friday 11th October 2019 19:31 GMT Anonymous Coward
@MJB7 - Re: Germany and surveillance
On the other hand, Russians and Chinese have learned how to live under surveillance. Oh, and Americans will have too because it's being pushed on them by their government. I find amazing how much abuse the American people can endure as long as they can keep their assault rifles which it is claimed it should protect them from being abused.
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
