

Germany’s top court ruled that police may only use spyware to monitor devices in cases involving crimes with a maximum sentence of at least three years.
As someone else pointed out in another thread: copyright infringements maximum sentence is 5 years in germany. So beeing accused of downloading a song would allow the police to backdoor your phone/computer/infrastructure… same with stealing an apple because you are hungry and calling a politician, for example the Turkish president erdogan, a fragile, narcissistic egomaniac in a poem (“Schmähkritik”).



I, too get blocked by certain sites. I think it’s a configuration thing, where it does not like my combination of uBlock/NoScript, even when I explicitly allow their scripts…