Frank Rieger

Biography

Frank Rieger is speaker for the Chaos Computer Club, Germany, one of the largest hacker and digital citizen rights organization worldwide. He has been active in the field of digital security for more then 15 years now and has worked and published extensively on many aspects of the influence technology and the net have on society, citizen rights and politics. He has co-authored expert opinons for the german constitutional court on subjects like voting computers and data retention. Professionally he works as CTO for a company that manufactures secure communications products.

Analysis of a government spyware - 0zapftis

The Chaos Computer Club got his hands on a handful of samples of government spyware used by the german police to do computer infiltrations, euphemistically called "tools for source interception of communications". Upon analysis, the trojan – named 0zapftis by the CCC team – turned out to contain more functions then allowed by court and by the constitution. It can load and execute arbitrary binary over the net onto the infiltrated computer. The CCC was able to build its own control program for the trojan samples, as there is no meaningful protection against third-party takeover of the trojan. The political fallout from the publication of the analysis was imense, as it exampifies the pressing questions of constitutional and citizen rights in the digital age. Under what circumstances should the government be allowed to infiltrate citizens computers? What about the forensic integrity of the infiltrated system? Can "evidence" gained from infiltrated systems be used and trusted at all in court?