In order to monitor encrypted communication, investigators will in future, according to the Senate draft and the Änderungen der Abgeordneten, not only be allowed to hack IT systems but also to secretly enter suspects’ apartments.
If remote installation of the spyware is technically not possible, paragraph 26 explicitly allows investigators to “secretly enter and search premises” in order to gain access to IT systems. In fact, Berlin is thus legalizing – as Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania did before – state intrusion into private apartments in order to physically install Trojans, for example via USB stick.
We should be deeply concerned where this is heading. There will be a point in history, where all this stuff will get abused. From biometric camera systems, state trojans or Palantir-like software.
Only problem is: We seem to keep voting for governments pushing all this BS. Why?