Das Buch Wer mitmacht, hat Recht!

Hanno writes on his blog about the recent shock-and-awe approach of Germany’s equivalent to the FBI, the BKA , to push ridiculous new empowerments.

The BKA invited members of the Innenausschuss (German Wikipedia entry) a permanent committee of the German government commissioned to handle everything related to politics of the interior. Their fields of work include (besides others):

• Security of the Interior
• Laws regarding the constitution
• Information-society (society in the post-modern world of information- and telecommunication technology)

This puts them right at the lever to influence laws limiting civil liberties and laws regarding everything that’s internet.

The presentation was split into three main parts:

1. Shocking videos of torture, child abuse, and murder.

1. How does online-crime work? An abstract on typical cases like botnets, DDoS, trojan horses, man-in-the-middle attacks, pharming, phishing, ...
2. What further empowerment does the BKA wish for (including online search and seize and how it works)

Hanno’s source, an eyewitness to the presentation, states: For the listeners who don’t have any IT knowledge, the whole presentation had only one message: The internet is evil.

Never did the BKA mention that the demanded empowerments would aid in preventing the shocking examples shown in the presentation (not possible anyways), but the whole presentation suggested this.
In contrary, the BKA itself states in a different report: It would only help increase the percentage of successfully cleared-up investigations by 0.006%.

The BKA also talked about dangers from trojan horses, and how one could easily secure his computer. They went on talking about the online search and seize which will be realized using a, guess what, trojan horse.
They, however, failed to delve into how this should be possible if, as stated by them selfs, one can easily secure his computer from trojan horses.

The majority of the listeners didn’t notice this flaw in argumentation.
They were simply lacking any IT education.

But it worked: A listener was later quoted saying: “We have nightmarish facts.”

This is the police state establishing it’s “laws.”
WAKE UP GERMANY!