Some time ago, in May 2008 to be precise, I decided to quit my job at ERA IT Solutions and to leave the IT field for a while to find new inspiration by doing something completely different. I planned to leave my country to spend some months somewhere in Africa to support the people there by teaching them basic computer knowledge in an informatics school. Everything was completely different, everything changed within hours. Country, continent, culture, language, skin color, climate … the perfect distraction and after some time besides tropical diseases also motivation and inspiration found their way back to me. The result is everything what you see here : articles, documents, tools and sources about programming malware.

In the meantime 15 months passed. For me and obviously also for the media the Bundestrojan/Superintendent trojan hype is over (data retention and Internet censorship are Germany’s new battle field) I don’t know what happens behind the scenes, how it develops, how fast it develops or what happened at all. I’m out of that business and have as much information about this topic as you have. Not long ago, I received an email telling me that the copyright on all the code I wrote in that time is mine and it’s up to me what happens with it now. A gesture and decision I appreciate.

So hereby I want to announce that the code which was/is known as Swiss Bundestrojan/Superintendent trojan variant will be free, open, available and accessible to anyone who respects the GPL, and who is interested in the structure and construction of trojan horses and who is also curious what the root of all the rumours was.