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German government hiring developers to make spyware for computer surveillance (slate.com)
29 points by tchalla on Sept 8, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



Ah, der Bundestrojaner :/

The concept of "federal trojan" and "western, liberal democracy" don't seem to go together, in my mind. The former sounds like something Orwellian, perhaps from the northern half of the Korean peninsula.


> perhaps from the northern half of the Korean peninsula

Or the central portion of the North American continent coughStuxnetcough.


You mean Torwellian? Reference: 4:35 @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o66FUc61MvU


For future reference: appending &t=MM:SS to the end of a YouTube URL links to that position in the video.

And what does an irrelevant YouTube rap have to do with this?


That's a result of joining the German Democratic Republic (GDR) 1990.




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