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by paste0x78 3587 days ago
Don't France and Germany want to put backdoors in encryption? > http://www.wsj.com/articles/france-germany-push-for-access-t...
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German police have a history of using spyware going back quite some time: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/trojan-trouble-t...

But now the rules are different. Spyware can only be used "when lives are at risk". http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/german-police-can...

And Germany looked the other way for NSA surveillance for years...
For decades.