The funny thing is they don't want to develop an all-purpose trojan. It's only meant to intercept communication before it is encrypted and sent over the wire. T

The funny thing is they don't want to develop an all-purpose trojan. It's only meant to intercept communication before it is encrypted and sent over the wire. This came to happen because they were unable to listen in on Skype calls in the past. So they're basically deploying a trojan which is able to copy VOIP traffic. From media reports it's unclear if communication includes chat and email, which would make the trojan a keylogger. There are lawyers that argue email, without PGP encryption, is within the 'Quellen-TKÜ' laws reach. Furthermore the government is not allowed to turn the infected machine into a listening station, by law the flat of a person is under stronger protection than his communication. Technically this will be really hard to enforce in software...