Italian Interior Minister creates government task force to hack Skype
Posted on February 19th, 2009
The Italian Interior Minister — the one who will be deciding which posts “defend” criminal activity and thus require ISPs to block the post’s host — is setting up a task force to hack Skype so the government can eavesdrop on its citizens.
Among his many virtues, I think it’s safe to say that Roberto Maroni is totally free of a sense of irony.
(I base this on a Google translation of an article sent to me by my friend Gianluca.)
the funny thing is that if ever they succeed they would be able to listen to all the planet
tragy-comic at its best
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