Swedish police may soon be allowed surveillance via trojans

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14 points·tmikaeld··5 comments

According to the Police "90% of (criminal?) traffic is encrypted".

There's also the recently enforced "Data storage directive" that record all ISP traffic for 6 to 24 months. (Accessible without warrant)

The "Data storage directive" law has been deemed illegal by the EU, but was forced through anyway and applied 1 October 2019.

Not agreeing with the ever increasing surveillance (nor this proposal), but, I don't think the 90% stat was gathered that way. When I saw the press conference [0], I got the impression that the 90% came from failed attempts at "hemlig avlyssning av elektronisk kommunikation" (secret surveillance of electronic communication). That's basically a network tap gathering data, SMS or phone calls.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TILOlZRga6U

Yeah, makes sense that it's based on actual wiretapping attempts.

At first glance I am kinda ok with this. I mean, as long as a citizen / criminal is allowed to encrypt anything and everything and take any step they want to to protect their communication / devices, I kinda think the police should be able to do anything they can to get evidence. As long as they get a proper warrant and the crime suspected is grave enough of course. I might be missing something and is up to change my mind on this though. As long as they aren't arguing for something stupid like a backdoor or making encryption illegal or something.

How do they plan on loading up an iphone or android phone with a 'trojan'? This seems to be more an excuse to get police some sort of excuse to be able to snoop even more than what they currently can.

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