Germany (the government, that is) is actively pursuing the development (since 2005) and deployment (since 2007) of a trojan horse that they use to secretly search through computers of citizens. It is dubbed “Bundestrojaner” and its official description is “remote forensic software”
See more about it here: (wikipedia)

This is following the argumentation that (freely interpreted):
“If you don’t have anything to hide, you should not have a problem with this software”

By the way: The post of the CCC that the trojan was hidden in the tax software was a April fool’s joke meant to sensitize people, I absolutely fell for it.. teaches me to think before I panic in the future ;)

Recently, all “hacking tools” have been prohibited in Germany. What is next?

In a recent move, Angela Merkel has forced an amendment to the liberty laws through Der Bundestag. It is from now on prohibited to use any operating system that is non-trivial to break into.
German police have started to do house-to-house searches of Internet users reported to be not hackable by the Security Services (SS) of the Federal Government.

More action is to follow soon, the Minister of Information of the Federal Government, who only wanted to be known by his initials, JG, confirmed:
“We have outlawed the use and ownership of any so-called security tool, to liberate Germans from FUD, Fear Uncertainty and Danger. We have outlawed any operating system that hinders the proper execution of the tasks of the SS.” He promised to follow up on speculations of setting up a re-education camp for deviant Internet users in Bergen-Belsen. He asked the reporter to supply his e-mail address, in order to deliver the adequate response into her mailbox as soon as that response was ready.

Somebody once said: “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance” – I hope we won’t have to let it come to that.