DigiTask

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Digi Task GmbH Company for special telecommunication systems

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Seat Haiger , Germany
management Achim Pulverich
Branch Software development , communication technology
Website www.digitask.de

The Digi task GmbH company for special telecommunications systems (DigiTask), based in Haiger ( Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse ) is a medium-sized software companies deploy solutions for the lawful interception of telecommunications (Lawful Interception), the investigating authorities for preventing, investigating and prosecuting. The company was founded in August 1986 as Reuter Leiterplatten GmbH. DigiTask is active in the areas of software development, network technology and IT project management. The services include a. Database design and implementation, hardware and hardware-related programming, interface programming, software adjustments, visualization and control systems and archiving solutions. DigiTask is a company maintained by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy in Bonn.

criticism

Reuter affair

The head of the company Reuter Electronic and founder of DigiTask bribed officials from the Customs Criminal Police Office until 1999 , who preferred to order technology from his company. He was sentenced in 2002 by the Cologne Regional Court for bribing officials from the Cologne Customs Criminal Police Office and granting advantages to a fine of 1.5 million euros and a suspended prison sentence of 21 months . The customer base of Reuter Electronic was partly taken over by DigiTask. The consulting company Deloitte managed Digitask in trust between 2000 and 2006.

Big Brother Award 2009

In October 2009 the company was awarded the negative “ Big Brother Award ” in the business category, which is awarded for the improper use of technology and information. The laudator Frank Rosengart described DigiTask as the “ top dog in the German eavesdropping business”: “As can be summed up from published tender documents, Digi-Task received five million euros from German authorities last year for such monitoring systems and systems alone. Together with Reuter electronic, Digi-Task is developing specialized listening devices for the police and secret services. "

Controversy about the "state Trojan"

In October 2011, the published Chaos Computer Club (CCC) analyzing a presumably to online searches used malicious software (also called "State Trojan" called). In terms of its range of functions, this largely corresponds to an offer which, according to a document on Wikileaks DigiTask, made the Bavarian authorities. Therefore, many media reported that DigiTask is believed to be the originator of the so-called state Trojan. The Bavarian Ministry of the Interior then announced that the initial assessment by the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office had shown that one of the malware leaked to the CCC can be assigned to an investigation by the Bavarian police from 2009.

In the Hessischer Rundfunk , a lawyer for the company confirmed that DigiTask had programmed the malware that was also used in Switzerland and Austria and was delivered to the Netherlands . The company defended itself against the allegation of incompetence and stated: "It is quite possible that software delivered in November 2008 no longer meets the security requirements." Regarding the constitutional concerns, the lawyer said, "The limits of the application are not from the company but to be observed by the authorities . "

The German Federal Criminal Police Office founded the DigiTask User Group in July 2008 to coordinate the use of the software within Europe . DigiTask has no ties to this group, which has since been renamed the Remote Forensic Software User Group. Security authorities in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria met twice a year with authorities in Switzerland , Belgium and the Netherlands . The MP Andrej Hunko , on whose question the information was made public, criticized that the BKA's “cross-border secrecy” only becomes public through “tough research”.

In the years 2005 to 2011, a large part of the annual investigation budget of the customs and tax authorities went to Digitask GmbH. The company received 2.8 million euros from the 2008 budget (3 million euros) as part of investigations.

Warning from Wavecon GmbH due to unfair competition

On October 21, 2011 DigiTask received a warning under competition law from Wavecon GmbH, which claims DigiTask GmbH to refrain from manufacturing and selling software for monitoring computers by law enforcement authorities. A judicial enforcement of this warning did not take place. Wavecon GmbH, itself also an IT company, but not a developer of monitoring software, was then warned by DigiTask about the publication and announcement of the warning.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Commercial Register: Wetzlar HRB 3177
  2. ↑ a b Konrad Lischka, Ole Reißmann and Christian Stöcker: Trojan horse manufacturer supplies a number of authorities and federal states. October 11, 2011, accessed on October 11, 2011 (German).
  3. ↑ Reuter circuit boards at genios-firmen.de (excerpt from the commercial register HRB 2384). Retrieved December 22, 2011
  4. ↑ Oliver Voß: Monitoring software: On the trail of the Trojan. In: Wirtschaftswoche. October 10, 2011, accessed on October 11, 2011 (German).
  5. ↑ Laudation from Frank Rosengart: The BigBrotherAwards 2009 Economy : German companies that offer surveillance technology for Internet and telephone, accessed on October 12, 2011
  6. ↑ Wikileaks : Skype and SSL Interception letters - Bavaria - Digitask
  7. ↑ Confirmation by a lawyer: "Staatstrojaner" comes from Hessen. October 10, 2011, archived from the original on September 4, 2012 ; accessed on October 12, 2011 (German).
  8. ↑ Peter Mühlbauer : "State Trojan" used in the Stauffacher case: Federal Prosecutor's Office spying on the Zurich activist's computer. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . October 13, 2011, accessed October 13, 2011 .
  9. ^ Emil Bobi: Trojan Morals. In: profile . Retrieved October 23, 2011 .
  10. ↑ Cyrus Farivar: German company behind government spyware admits sale to Bavaria. In: Deutsche Welle . October 11, 2011, accessed October 12, 2011 .
  11. ^ Konrad Lischka, Ole Reissmann: Staatstrojaner: DigiTask defends itself against allegations of incompetence. In: Spiegel online . October 12, 2011, accessed on October 12, 2011 (German).
  12. ↑ Matthias Thiema: Computer Monitoring: transactions with the software run well. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . October 11, 2011, accessed on October 13, 2011 (German).
  13. ↑ Plenary Protocol 17/138, German Bundestag (PDF file; 827 kB), accessed on September 1, 2012
  14. ^ BKA initiated international state trojan working group . In: Heise online , November 14, 2011. Accessed November 15, 2011
  15. ↑ Trojans and silent SMS are a lucrative business . In: Heise online , June 6, 2012
  16. ↑ Jörgen Linker: Digitask warns IT company. In: Mittelhessen.de . October 11, 2011, archived from the original on October 26, 2011 ; Retrieved October 20, 2011 .
  17. ↑ Cemil Degirmenci: Wavecon warns Digitask. (No longer available online.) In: wavecon.de. October 11, 2011, archived from the original on February 1, 2014 ; Retrieved October 20, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wavecon.de
  18. ↑ Cemil Degirmenci: Netzwelt ticker: DigiTask warns Wavecon. In: Spiegel Online . October 24, 2011, accessed March 1, 2014 .

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