[Dailydave] German/Afghanistan Trojan Horse Affair

[Sebastian Krahmer]

The most funny thing is that the afghan gov is apparently
using yahoo(!) for internal(!) mails*. Nuts! If this is really the case,
its also likely that terrorists read their mails.

Afghan gov should get some assistance in building a secure
and strong communication infrastructure which should be a task
for ISAF. (Might be they did and also installed additional
"important NATO extensions". Version 2.0 of course.)

But as always, the truth is probably completely different. :)

l8er,
S.


* I wonder whether yahoo permits to read mail w/o setting some flag
of the message to "already-read". Otherwise one will notice
surveillance. I am not familar with their mail-setup and whether
they maybe allow pop3 w/o deleting the messages which would
cross around the problem of flagging mails by reading them
in the web GUI.


On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 04:19:18PM +0200, Halvar Flake wrote:

> There's a lot of hoopla in German media about the german SIGINT folks
> having to admit that they trojanized Afghanistan's Ministry of Commerce
> and Industry.
> (http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,550212,00.html)
...

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