Summary The PDF contains two scanned documents relating to recent news coverage around interception technology for Skype and SSL in Bavaria, Germany. The first document is a communication by the Bavarian Ministry of Justice to the prosecutors office, relating to cost distribution for the interception licenses between police and prosecution. The second document allegedly presents [...]
… Recent events in the Middle East offer cases in point. In early March angry Egyptian crowds stormed into the buildings of the country’s secret police in a last-minute attempt to preserve documents that were about to be destroyed by departed President Hosni Mubarak’s cronies. There, amid shredded files, activists found transcripts of their own [...]
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