I found this little gem of an article on the website ARS Technica, http://arstechnica.com/, and knew it was begging to be shared. Here you go, folks…
“Trojans—they’re not just for hackers anymore. German police, for instance, love them; a scandal erupted in Parliament last year after federal investigators were found to be using custom spyware that could potentially record far more information than allowed by law. The story made headlines, but it lacked a certain sense of the bizarre.
Fortunately for connoisseurs of the weird, Der Spiegel revealed a stranger story in its magazine yesterday. According to the report, a top German security official installed a trojan on his own daughter’s computer to monitor her Internet usage. What could possibly go wrong?”
To find what DID go wrong, visit http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/top-german-cop-uses-spyware-on-daughter-gets-hacked-in-retaliation.ars.
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