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Private surveillance firms: Profits before freedom
Index On Censorship Due to his prominent position in opposition party, Ginbot 7 it was discovered that his personal computer had traces of FinFisher's intrusion software, FinSpy, jeopardising the anonymity and safety of those in Ethiopia he has been communicating with … |
The anonymising service Tor and the secretive web underworld operating under its shadowy cloak were rocked over the weekend by the arrest of a major hosting provider and suggestions that malicious JavaScript may have been planted on a number of sites, aimed at revealing the identities of those using Tor.
Naked Security – Sophos
Hours before NSA Chief General Keith Alexander delivered the keynote address at the Black Hat security conference, The Guardian reported on the NSA surveillance program XKeyscore; it can allegedly give analysts access to “nearly everything a typical user does on the internet.” It no doubt took nerves of steel to address the crowd of hackers in order to defend the PRISM surveillance program known as…
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The Spy in Your Pocket: Mobile Journalism's Risk
CPJ Press Freedom Online Subsequent samples obtained by the same researchers showed variants of FinFisher, such as FinSpy, were aimed not at desktop computers, but at iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, and Nokia mobile phones. The malware was variously capable of retransmitting … |