Germany's Interior Minister Wants Backdoors In Cars, Digital Devices

[Lucian Armasu]

German Interior Minister, Thomas de Maizièr, has reportedly written a draft proposal in which he proposes that digital devices, as well as connected cars should come with built-in backdoor access for intelligence agencies and the police.

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[therealduckofdeath]

Well, it has been several months since the last global IT disaster caused by forgotten backdoors, so why the heck not? I mean, what the chance it happens again (again, again, again, again)

 

[hannibal]

One good example where a person does not know anything about computers and back doors...
Hopefully someone in Germany explains him why this is so bad idea.

 

[derekullo]

Why do the police need access to my toaster?

Can I blame the police when my toast is burnt?

 

[vasras]

What a twat. He should study up on tech and risks with backdoors.
Just goes to show that even in Germany, politicians are morons.

 

[clonazepam]

A car with software backdoors would need software support for the entire lifetime of the vehicle. What's the expiration date on a new car? Somehow I don't believe in car companies' ability to secure or support the features properly. Like touched on in the article, they automatically have a bullseye on them as well.

 

[berezini.2013]

Germany will crash and burn. i see a lot of hackers moving to germany just to take advantage of all the backdoors! They will teach germany doing it doggie style!

 

[kuhndj67]

There will be no digital backdoor in any car I ever let drive me... stupidest... idea... ever.

 

[JonDol]

Did he smoke something then started to explore "what if..." ideas ?

 

[mwryder55]

This would also allow them to watch any person at any time without any warrants. Much like the LG vacuumr with a camera on it that was accessible on the web.
And what is to stop another Snowden or Manning releasing the access information on the web either to show the abuses being used with them or for profit?

 

[Tanyac]

News at 6: German police have traced the latest terror attack in Munich to a 600L refrigerator that notified it's owner that they were low on milk. The owner has been detained without charges and denied rights to legal representation....

 

[bit_user]

I don't suppose this guy grew up in East Germany, by any chance? Cuz I hear they had quite a nasty habit of people spying on each other, over there.

 

[bit_user]

Germany will crash and burn. i see a lot of hackers moving to germany just to take advantage of all the backdoors!

Ever heard of the Chaos Computer Club? Germany already has some of the best hackers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club

 

[bit_user]

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Well said, sir. I think you hit on all the major points.

 

[boju]

This guy should watch Fast and Furious 8. What a mess those driverless cars made lol

 

[AndrewJacksonZA]

Moving away from my car with a carburetor in it seems less and less attractive...

 

[TripleHeinz]

Germany is all about leaving doors open.

 

[Spock_rhp]

Wow! just imagine the fun the Russian not really state supported hackers can have when Russia needs to sow chaos in Germany. Imagine -- every car's controls taken over remotely causing untold numbers of crashes in every city. Or even Islamic hackers looking to do maximum damage to Western infidels from the comfort of their cave homes in Pakistan.

Is this fellow a complete idiot or what?

 

[c4s2k3]

Gee, I guess ransomware in your PC isn't quite bad enough, so let's make sure we can have it on cars too /s

 

[Colin_10]

VW should say, ok well if you want access, then we need 100M (or something) a year from the government to pay for additional security measures to monitor your access and this back door in general. This is totally reasonable as VW would have to pay to create the loophole as well as to monitor it afterwards for the lifetime of the vehicles.

 

[COLGeek]

When you create a backdoor, you don't get to choose who opens it later.

 

[mapesdhs]

The leftist deep state lives on in Germany... *sigh* It seems the German population once again needs liberation.

A good YT channel that covers many of these issues is Kraut & Tea, eg.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUmN80JB8cA

Ian.

 

[Olle P]

What a giveaway to terrorists!
Just think about it: All cars turn left... now!

There will be no digital backdoor in any car I ever let drive me... stupidest... idea... ever.

How can you tell?

I don't suppose this guy grew up in East Germany, by any chance? Cuz I hear they had quite a nasty habit of people spying on each other, over there.

Stasi would envy the means routinely used by NSA and DHS to spy on the population in USA...

 

[cryoburner]

VW should say, ok well if you want access, then we need 100M (or something) a year from the government to pay for additional security measures to monitor your access and this back door in general. This is totally reasonable as VW would have to pay to create the loophole as well as to monitor it afterwards for the lifetime of the vehicles.

And then they can implement it like they did their "clean diesel", where the feature is only functional during testing, but disabled under normal usage scenarios. : P