Coder of Swiss Wiretapping Trojan Speaks Out 114
Lars Sobiraj writes "Ruben Unteregger has worked for a long time as a software-engineer for the Swiss company ERA IT Solutions. His job there was to code malware that would invade PCs of private users, and allow the wiretapping of VoIP calls — in particular, calls made through Skype. In the German-speaking areas of the country, the Trojans were called 'Bundestrojaner' because the Swiss government was involved with their development and use. Unfortunately, Unteregger has to remain silent about the customers of the company. Last night, he published the source code of his Skype-Trojan under the GPL."
Now, Would A Patriot Please Post (Score:2, Funny)
the N.S.A.'s [google.com] code for intercepting EVERYTHING .
Yours Seditiously,
Kilgore Trout
Re:Government Support Malware... Great... (Score:4, Funny)
I'm most worried about the government itself, thank you.
Well thankfully this was the Swiss government. The US would never use some of the billions poured into the new "Cyberwar" to do exactly the same thing. We have laws and high government officials always get brought to justice over things like this...
Re:GPL ? (Score:5, Funny)
Title reads: "Coder of Swiss Wiretapping Trojan Speaks Out"
Summary reads: "Unfortunately, Unteregger has to remain silent about the customers of the company."
The parent quotes the guy: "About the details, why I keep the copyright, I can't offer a statement. As already mentioned I agreed to absolute silence."
That's why I am not commenting on this story.