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The government trojan “Bundestrojaner” will open its source code

Cross-post from my personal page.

Carrumba writes that he has received permission to publish the source code of the Bundestrojaner.

This trojan horse was built under contract from the Swiss government, and among other things, it was one of the first pieces of malware that could listen in on Skype calls.

It will be very interesting to see this. As Carrumba writes, it will finally confirm (or put an end to) the rumors that were going around back when the Bundestrojaner was first released. It will be a chance for anyone “who is also curious what the root of all the rumours was” to see just that.

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3 Responses to “The government trojan “Bundestrojaner” will open its source code”

  1. Diskussion mit dem Erfinder des Bundestrojaners in Mainz. - Ansichten eines Piraten Says:
    August 15th, 2009 at 12:52 pm

    [...] The government trojan “Bundestrojaner” will open its source code … [...]

  2. morison dony Says:
    September 3rd, 2009 at 8:56 pm

    Can you provide more information on this? great blog by the way.

  3. rca Says:
    September 13th, 2009 at 9:10 am

    Sorry for replying so late, I hope you’ve seen the consequences of this all over the news now :)