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Berlin: Police can secretly enter homes for state trojan installation (www.heise.de)
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In order to monitor encrypted communication, investigators will in future, according to the Senate draft and the Änderungen der Abgeordneten, not only be allowed to hack IT systems but also to secretly enter suspects' apartments.

If remote installation of the spyware is technically not possible, paragraph 26 explicitly allows investigators to "secretly enter and search premises" in order to gain access to IT systems. In fact, Berlin is thus legalizing – as Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania did before – state intrusion into private apartments in order to physically install Trojans, for example via USB stick.

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[–] jasory@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

These laws aren't to stop security professionals, it's to stop common criminals that don't have or bother with security beyond using third-party apps.