German government wants ‘backdoor’ access to every digital device: report

Thomas de Maizière wants that.<p>The guy says unconstitutional shit like this every other week. It&#x27;ll be shot down by our supreme court for sure, if it&#x27;s even taken into consideration in the first place.

Coming soon: a proposal to hold the government responsible for every breach of data that occurs because they corruptly assigned some contract to an irresponsible third party or hired a minimum wage cop who decided surveillance power&#x27;s main use is to prove that you really do secretly love him [1]. And of course for selling your private photos. [2]<p>Wait. Nope, no way in hell the government is responsible for those things [2] (even ignoring the fact that the government internally knows about thousands of abuse of surveillance data cases as the AP points out and I was able to find 2 references to cases about such abuse, neither held the government responsible for anything (and neither was filed by the government). However they do make clear that government cares <i>deeply</i> that cops not be punished for abusing surveillance systems)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.computerworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;3124641&#x2F;security&#x2F;cops-run-unauthorized-searches-on-confidential-databases-for-revenge-stalking.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.computerworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;3124641&#x2F;security&#x2F;cops-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;volokh-conspiracy&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;26&#x2F;ninth-circuit-overturns-cfaa-verdicts-for-misusing-databases&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;volokh-conspiracy&#x2F;wp&#x2F;201...</a>

When I see a story where representative democracy is failing to serve the people, I can&#x27;t help but remember that this form of democracy was invented before we had the Internet.<p>The Internet should be used to fix its deficiencies. Change.org clearly isn&#x27;t enough.<p>Digital democracy, even with 10% fraudsters, would be better than representative democracy by a large margin.

I bet in a few years most countries will simply follow China and make it illegal not to own&#x2F;use &quot;closed&quot; devices that are not accessible for the government. 1984 was harmless compared to what is already here and what is coming.

The Germans will be safe for a good few years yet. Their government will only be able to do this when everyone who lived under the Stasi dies and can no longer vote.

Proposing such a drastic law should somehow be not so easy to do. Sure, this proposal won‘t go through as is but what ever „weaker version“ of it will come in a few months will therefore sound much more sensible and might go through.. these „tactics“ make me really angry..

Folks, don&#x27;t despair; always look at the bright side. They&#x27;re still years away from backdoor access to every German person!

Never expected this from Germany.But we should wait to see if this is really considered by the governament as viable or not.

There is another big Risk to this point. If you have Back Doors everybody can use it not just government

The Germans always were anally fixated.