Re: [Bug-gnubg] Has someone hacked www.gnubg.org?

[Achim Mueller]

* Christian Anthon <address@hidden> [071113 17:32]:
> Ian Shaw wrote:
> > I went to the home page just now and got some message in German (I
> > think) before getting onto the site proper.
> 
> yes it has been hacked...
> 
> by achim though. The story is the following,
> 
> "According to plans of the German parties CDU, CSU and SPD, from 2008
> onwards it will be possible to trace who has contacted whom via
> telephone, mobile phone or e-mail for a period of six months. In the
> case of mobile calls or text messages via mobile phone, the user's
> location will also be logged. Anonymising services will be prohibited."
> 
> So a lot of German sites has put up this notice prior to entering the
> actual site. Similar to what was done to convince lawmakers not to pass
> laws allowing software patents.

Exactly! Perhaps it's worth mentioning that this passed law is based on
a EU guideline which forces all members of the EU to convert the content
of the guideline into national law. Also the UK ;-). Regarding the use
of the www it's also not clear, whether only pure connection data (ISP -
customer) or also e.g. http connections will be saved. The guideline 
and the German law is pretty (intentionally?!) blurred.

An additonal note: There will be another contract between 52 countries
called "Cybercrime-Convention." Part of the contract will be the
exchange of data (including the above mentioned data retention). 1984 is
history!

But I'll check whether there is an English version of this protest note.
Before I published the one you just see I sent e-mails to a few core
members if gnubg (unfortunately not to everybody).

Ciao

Achim