German government to use Trojan spyware to monitor citizens

Re:German government to use Trojan spyware to monitor citizens by brakmic on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @09:52AM (#11159184)

Those companies also lack professional programmers. Actually, such companies sell for extremely expensive software programmed by students or consultants. The CCC disassembled the trojan and found out that they've used simple string manipulations to split Win32-APIs. For example OpenFile was split into "Open" and "File" etc.

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Re:German government to use Trojan spyware to monitor citizens by raverbashing on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @10:01AM (#11159263)

In today's world we can assume that the number of programmers with deep knowledge of systems is only going to dwindle

I shudder to think of code written by interns

But why would they split 'Open' and 'File'?

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Re:German government to use Trojan spyware to monitor citizens by kuschku on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @10:04AM (#11159288)

Obfuscation.

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Re:German government to use Trojan spyware to monitor citizens by catwell on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @10:51AM (#11159686)

It is also a usual trick to avoid detection by "heuristic" antivirus software (even in legit software).

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