Bundestrojaner Government Spyware Incapable Of Affecting Most Encryption Types
There have been various rumors regarding governments trying to spy on consumers to identify illegal or illicit activity over the Internet. Bundestrojaner, which is allegedly used by the German government, seem to work only with Skype, and on the Windows platform. There does not appear to be any support for mobile operating systems, or any the other main computer OSes. Bundestrojaner Government Spyware Has Limited Use. Even though Windows is the most common operating system among computer users, questions are raised when it turns out government spyware can only target this particular....
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