>Peter Laufenberg <open...@laufenberg.ch> wrote: > >> My German's rusty but the follow-up article quoting Symantec mentions >> spyware/keylogging, which has been the traditional "technique" used in >> in the past. > >But that's for targeted surveillance.
They still cast a wide net: on ccc.de there's a detailed report of one target wanking to phone-sex. >The original article refers >to a bulk grep of 16,400 search terms over 37 million e-mail messages. I just read the PDF, in 2010 they dumped a raw IP stream from which they extracted individual emails (90% spam) in which they searched for words like "bomb". High-tech stuff. The one-sentence answer about PGP has so many qualifiers that only an idiot would read it as a blanket success claim, the gov official was probably puzzled by the question's "half-pregnant" formulation. Golem seem to have buried their story in an embarrassed rush; whoever came up with the title must be flipping BratwC<rste right now. -- p
