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...opposition parties supported buying the CD if it would help uncover the identities of suspected tax dodgers. "It's a scandal that [the authorities] pursue every parking offender but not those people who evade paying up to $300 million in taxes," Sigmar Gabriel, chairman of the Social Democratic Party, told the paper Hamburger Abendblatt. The German police union was equally adamant that moral concerns should be pushed aside. "The police work with criminals on a daily basis - we have paid informers who help us uncover drug trafficking or other crimes," Konrad Freiberg, head of the union, tells TIME. "Particularly with...
...Merkel agreed. However distasteful Germany's leader may have found the deal, she said on Monday that the end, in this case, may justify the means. "Just like any reasonable person, I am in favor of punishing tax evasion," she told reporters in Berlin. "In order to do this, everything should be done to get hold of this data...
...scene, a shy college girl goes for dinner at the house of her roommate’s strange benefactor. Upon entering, she is told, “Here is where you leave your clothes.” Without missing a beat Munro writes, “Don’t worry, you won’t be cold. The house is well heated throughout.” Because both lines are uttered in the same casual manner, the expectation for her to strip seems almost as natural as the assumption that she would take off her coat. In moments like...
...already have the capacity to disrupt elements of the U.S. information infrastructure." (On Tuesday, the nation's top intelligence official warned that cyber-enemies have "severely threatened" U.S. computer systems. "Malicious cyber activity is occurring on an unprecedented scale with extraordinary sophistication," Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, told a Senate committee...
...stage before warfare," cyberwarfare expert James Lewis told a Washington audience on Jan. 27. "We're in the stages of people poking around." Lewis, with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), said cyberdefenses are inadequate. "Unless we find a way to use offensive capabilities as part of a deterrence or strategic defense," he said, "we will be unable to defeat these opponents." CSIS also released last week a survey of cybersecurity experts from around the world who "rank the U.S. as the country 'of greatest concern' in the context of foreign cyberattacks, just ahead of China...