The German Federal Government plans to have a Trojan created to
spy on its citizens help the law enforcement agencies in their investigations.
Currently the legality of this plan is under scrutiny (the first try to get an "online search" done was stopped as illegal by a judge), but the government is not afraid to tout that they will create the legal grounds for it if necessary.
Heise has published more information, among them the factoid that two programmers will be hired to write the trojan and that the development should not cost more than 200,000 € in total.
The brazenness of this idea is astounding (not to mention dumbfounding) - not to mention that they will have a hard time against people with at least some security skill.
Oh well, it's always good to see perfectly good tax money go down the drain.