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South America Hacker Team Targets Dissidents, Journalists

She still can’t access contacts and other data on her Apple iCloud because hackers changed her password and security questions. Other prominent alleged Packrat targets in Ecuador include Martha Roldos, an environmental activist, and Cesar Ricuarte …
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Computer security tools for journalists lacking in a post-Snowden world – UW Today


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Computer security tools for journalists lacking in a post-Snowden world
UW Today
Those included computer security tools that go unused because they introduce roadblocks to information gathering, inadequate solutions for basic tasks like transcribing interviews and failing to consider potential risks from cloud computing and other

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Journalists: the unwitting pawns of government cyber warfare – Wired.co.uk

Journalists: the unwitting pawns of government cyber warfare
Wired.co.uk
To win at the government's cyber game and to avoid inadvertently becoming a mouthpiece for propaganda, a journalist's best bet is to go gonzo, says innovator and information activist Smári McCarthy in his talk "Lies, propaganda and …

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Report: Ethiopian Government Hacks Journalists in US and Europe – Mashable


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Report: Ethiopian Government Hacks Journalists in US and Europe
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In March 2013, the researchers there had already found evidence of another surveillance software, FinSpy, a spyware developed by Gamma International, a UK firm selling software similar to the Hacking Team's. With this precedent in mind, Marczak had few 
Ethiopia uses Italian surveillance to hack their own journalists in US and The Voice of Russia

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