German police could not listen to Skype, asking for permission to Trojans

German police could not intercept and decipher Skype traffic to eavesdrop on calls from suspected criminals and terrorists. Joerg Ziercke, president of the national police headquarters of Germany (BKA), complained to reporters at the annual meeting of security and security officials about this in front of journalists, Reuters reports .

This situation does not suit the police, for which the interception of phones long ago became the standard means of rapid development. Naturally, law enforcement agencies are not going to give up such an effective tool and are now looking for a way out of this situation.

Experts say that VoIP telephony is, by its nature, more difficult to intercept, because the information is transmitted in the form of packets via the Network via an unpredictable route, rather than on a fixed line, as in ordinary telephony.

Jörg Zirke said that they didn’t turn to Skype management asking for help in solving this problem. “I don’t think it will help,” he said, especially since it doesn’t solve the problem of VoIP telephony in principle. The police need another.
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The security forces “punch” through the legislative power the permission to secretly install viruses on computers of suspected criminals in order to carry out surveillance in the best traditions of the Stasi. In this way, and listen to conversations on Skype will also become much easier.

via Reuters