Austria allows use of Trojans to track criminals

Austria has become the first country in the world to allow the use of Trojan malicious code to monitor PC of suspected criminals or terrorists.

The decision was approved at an Austrian government cabinet meeting and was officially announced by Interior Minister Gunther Plater last weekend. At present, leading Austrian legal and technological experts are studying to draft details of the regulations and are expected to start implementing them from early next year.

Security circles recommend that the government will face a lot of difficulties in making the policy decisions mentioned above.

' According to what Platter has announced, the Trojan code will only be used to investigate suspects of terrorism or dangerous criminals. But the court still needs approval. I think this solution is still completely unstable. What if the Trojan malicious code got into the hands of those with bad intentions , 'said Geoff Sweeney, chief technology officer of Tier-3 security firm.

Austria is the first country to use Trojans to track criminals

Mr. Sweeney's worries are completely grounded in that hackers can completely steal the infected malware to track crime or terrorism. As such, they will have a great tool to steal personal information, industry secrets .

Security experts say the idea of ​​using Trojans to track crimes is a bad idea. Terrorists can easily escape that observation simply by using the Ubuntu Linux operating system. In addition, they have the world's leading anti-malware software.

Anti-malicious software vendors almost ignored the request of the government to suggest that their kind of government code out of the list of malicious code that their software can detect eradicated by simply They also want to protect their product reputation.

Apart from Austria, Germany is also considering to make a final decision whether to allow or not to use Trojans to track criminals.

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