Government Spyware Targets Mexican Journalists and Their Families
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Government Spyware Targets Mexican Journalists and Their Families
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#2Of course it does. These days, just imagine the most insidious and nightmarish overreach and wait a few weeks. 2017 is looking like a benchmark year in this regard.
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#3Are they really so surprised that their promise to only survey criminals is broken?
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#4The company that makes the software "says it sells the tool exclusively to governments" as though they're trying to take a moral stand and say "we only see it to the good guys". When in fact they sell to governments that are highly oppressive and corrupt. It's a farce.
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#5The company that makes the software "says it sells the tool exclusively to governments" as though they're trying to take a moral stand and say "we only see it to the good guys". When in fact they sell to governments that are highly oppressive and corrupt. It's a farce.
Same shit as with Hacking Team..
They're Israeli's who also sell to the UAE. Lol.
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#6Of course it does. These days, just imagine the most insidious and nightmarish overreach and wait a few weeks. 2017 is looking like a benchmark year in this regard.
Save us, Vitalik.
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#7STOP linking to NYT
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#8The company that makes the software "says it sells the tool exclusively to governments" as though they're trying to take a moral stand and say "we only see it to the good guys". When in fact they sell to governments that are highly oppressive and corrupt. It's a farce.
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#9The company that makes the software "says it sells the tool exclusively to governments" as though they're trying to take a moral stand and say "we only see it to the good guys". When in fact they sell to governments that are highly oppressive and corrupt. It's a farce.
We need to avoid the slippery slope of blaming the tools. There are open source and commercial solutions that implement much of the same functionality.
If you blame the tools Hacking Team or NSO or whomever, disappears into the oblivion, and two more spawn to take their place. Meanwhile we build a popular opinion that these things are dangerous and need to be restricted or regulated. Software ends up as the new "burglary tools."
We need to shame the people that would have used any means available to the same ends.
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#10The company that makes the software "says it sells the tool exclusively to governments" as though they're trying to take a moral stand and say "we only see it to the good guys". When in fact they sell to governments that are highly oppressive and corrupt. It's a farce.
Same shit as with Hacking Team.. They're Israeli's who also sell to the UAE. Lol.
This is usually referred to as fourth party intelligence.
Say Russia compromises a high ranking ISIS member. The United States could compromise the infrastructure used by the Russians, and collect all the same intelligence. Not only have they gained knowledge about ISIS, they also strategically have a picture into what Russia actually knows.