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A government monitoring software scandal that erupted in Germany this week-end has spread beyond that nation's borders, raising concerns about how exactly much government officials around the world may visit monitor people through spy-ware. On Saturday, as noted on MSNBC.com, the German-based Chaos Computer Club declared it'd analyzed a Trojan horse software presumably spread by government authorities to privately spy on people' Internet moves, email, talk and more. The program, initially meant simply to support authorities intercept Internet telephone calls through legitimate wiretaps, went far beyond these allowable reasons, the hacker team so-called. The party called the government's utilization of the program crazy and required it's destroyed instantly. Because Saturday, new facts have appeared which mostly verify accusations raised from the hacker team. That's German authorities calling for a study. "Clearly the limitations established by the Federal Constitutional Court have now been enormously violated," mentioned Claudia Roth, co-leader of the Green Party, according to Der Spiegel's on the web edition Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has required a study of the event. To date, four German states -- including Bavaria -- have said although authorities preserve it had been applied legitimately in concert with court orders, they've used this program. But an attorney representing a suspect in a illegal pharmaceutical trafficking situation told correspondents that his client's laptop have been intentionally contaminated with the Trojan horse by Customs agents last year when he was touring through Munich airport, based on Deutsche Wells. German company DigiTask told a few media shops this week that the program scrutinized by-the Chaos Computer Club was probably a following program it'd sold to Bavarian specialists in 2007, and that it was considering states that exactly the same application was sold to other German states. DigiTask officials also said it'd offered related traveler application to government officials in Switzerland, Austria, and the Netherlands, based on Deutsche Wells. The company said it'd never offered its application beyond Europe. http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...-scandal-grows