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Keep in mind that government IT jobs in Germany are almost comically underpaid. People competent enough to perform timing correlation attacks usually choose the
by jupp0r 6y ago
Keep in mind that government IT jobs in Germany are almost comically underpaid. People competent enough to perform timing correlation attacks usually choose the >2x salary industry jobs. The running gag was that this is the greatest protection for citizens privacy.
Unfortunately, an unintended consequence is that the government looks to shady companies like Gamma to do its job. This leads to FinFisher, which is normally used by the most contemptible dictatorships against their dissidents, to be used against German law enforcement. It also creates incentives not to prosecute Gamma for helping to violate human rights all over the world by helping to throw bloggers into torture jails.
- Kalium 6y ago> to be used against German law enforcement. Against, or by? I'm not trying to nitpick, just make sense of this. You imply that the German government hired Gamma to gain access to FinFisher, and then talk about it being used against German law enforcement. This seems internally inconsistent.
- black_puppydog 6y ago"By" I'd suspect a writing/editing mistake here. But nobody is spying on our law enforcement. In fact, they seem to be so confident that anytime someone does look into their affairs for whatever reason, unconstitutional attitudes and practices just show up all over the place.
- jupp0r 6y agoI meant “by”, sorry for the confusion.