halcy.de v4 » Version four-point-oh and counting.Two weeks!

November 9th:

• 1923: Hitler-Ludendorff putsch.
• 1938: Reichskristallnacht.
• 2007: Vorratsdatenspeicherung. (de)

The pattern here is clear.

Jep, today the Bundestag decided to go against the will of the people, against the Grundgesetz (The german constitution), and agaist the likeley decision of the European Court and the highest german court, and passed a law permitting the government to use all the peoples connection data, be it from internet or phones, for pretty much whatever. It also mandates ISPs to keep said data. This is, of course, to protect us from the terrorists!

Nevermind that the econonic impact of having to store all this data will pretty much kill small ISPs, worsening the situation on an already pretty monopolistic market.

Nevermind that studies showed that 99.9% of all that data will never be even requested by police, and that, obviously, the biggest part of all that data is about completley innocent people, a crass violation of people rights.

Nevermind that this creates a climate of fear, in which people are afraid to say what they think.

Nevermind that this data will be misused, by people inside the system, and computer criminals outside the system.

Nevermind that it’s trivial for actual criminals to work around this with the likes of TOR and with stong cryptography.

Nevermind that this is a slippery slope to worse laws, and that laws like this usually only exist in facist states, like the DDR.

Nevermind all this, we have to have this law, as there is no other way to protect us from the immense terrorist threat.

What follows now is the biggest number of lawsuits about a single issue ever brought before germans highest court (Over 7000 people, and all opposition parties will file suit). As this is so clearly against the fundamental right of informational self-determination, this law must go. Or the terrorists, wanting to destroy our freedoms, win.

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• More info at Vorratsdatenspeicherung.de.

lol, bundestrojaner

For those who do not know, the so-called “Bundestrojaner” is a trojan horse app developed by the German law enforcement agencies to peek at suspects hard drives without them knowing. This is a highly illegal and unconstitutional practice, and the law must be clarified in that way and not be fumbled around with to excuse this human rights breakage.

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Take action: de/en, Chaos Computer Club.

Wooo. Fucking. Hoo. It’s official: The German bundestag passed a law illegalizing the posession of tools whose aim it is to break computer security.

nmap, tcpdump, or *gasp* metasploit: Illegal in germany.

Watch in awe as network administrators just suddenly stop administrating, universities delete linux from their servers (Cause like it’s illegal!), and people teaching computer security stop teaching (Who needs security experts anyways, when the internet has been declared hacker-free. I mean, this will sureley stop people who were planning to do something illegal anyways.). Basically, business as usual, but now we can get jailed for it.

To celebrate this occasion, I’ve just downloaded nmap. You can, too: It’s here, please be aware that clicking this link and downloading and compiling the source is illegal in germany, and might get you thrown in jail. Really, it’d be funny if it wasn’t actually a law.