[openbsd] FWD: [stefan@wollny.de: German article on secret computer surveillance recommends OpenBSD]

[Sergey Prysiazhnyi <apelsin@atmnis.com>]

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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:48:25 +0200
From: Stefan Wollny <stefan@wollny.de>
To: www@openbsd.org
Subject: German article on secret computer surveillance recommends OpenBSD

Hi,

on your page on media coverage regarding your projects you have already some
articles published by the German publishing house "Heise Zeitschriften Verlag"
who runs paper magazines like c't or iX. But they also have an online magazine
named TELEPOLIS (http://www.heise.de/tp).

Yesterday (Sept 11th, 2007) appeared an article on TELEPOLIS on the
implications on how some terrorist suspects where under surveillance by the
authorities by Peter M|hlbauer
[http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26165/1.html]. Background of his
thoughts are recent discussions in Germany on legalising computer surveillance
attacks by the authorities (here known under the keyword "Bundestrojaner").
The suspects are said to have used hundreds of internet cafis and insecure
WLAN run by private persons who suddenly are under suspicion for support of
terrorists.

The author concludes that NOT 99.9% of the population will not be affected by
governmental computer surveillance. In fact any Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS or
FreeBSD user is at risk. The article finishes "... only users of OpenBSD and
GEOS may feel relatively secure - of cause only as long as they don't use
WLAN".

Additional information from the article: In Germany authorities may legally
use any information the get their hands on. Example: User A is under
surveillance and receives a mail by user B with some defamation of a civil
servant on duty. Though this offence was not spoken out to this civil servant
prosecutors may use it against user B!

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Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gr|_en,

STEFAN WOLLNY

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Sergey Prysiazhnyi

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