The germans per se don't approve. Politicians here, however are on the same stupid anti-terror craze they seem to be elsewhere, too. You know what I mean, giving up a little liberty for a little more security... hell yeah, great idea. As someone living in Bavaria, i am sure pissed about this. Even if it does not run on Linux, still, everyone suffers from this loss of freedom. Seems for some of those security-crazy folks the gestapo might just be a nice example of how to do things right...