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Spyware Sold to Goverments and Law enforcement

serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
edited November 2014 in Politics
It seems it's all about Data and who can get it now days!The Fourth amendment is dead permanently in 21st century. More amendments are sure to fall in the future also like the first and second ones.

serf

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/30/hacking-team/

The manuals describe Hacking Team's software for government technicians and analysts, showing how it can activate cameras, exfiltrate emails, record Skype calls, log typing, and collect passwords on targeted devices. They also catalog a range of pre-bottled techniques for infecting those devices using wifi networks, USB sticks, streaming video, and email attachments to deliver viral installers. With a few clicks of a mouse, even a lightly trained technician can build a software agent that can infect and monitor a device, then upload captured data at unobtrusive times using a stealthy network of proxy servers, all without leaving a trace. That, at least, is what Hacking Team's manuals claim as the company tries to distinguish its offerings in the global marketplace for government hacking software.

Comments

  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would think that all the time wasted on ordinary citizens would open doors for those with bad intentions
  • serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    `SupercookieS' are here now and the cookie monster is The NSA & Google search engine! You can bet that big brother will never stop tracking you as the system becomes more draconian in a so called free societies.

    Information is power an it's always money for Elites that think they are better then any other group in any civilization created! The disclaimer below from the cellular companies is pure bull sh......t!


    serf

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/verizon-atandt-tracking-their-users-with-super-cookies/2014/11/03/7bbbf382-6395-11e4-bb14-4cfea1e742d5_story.html

    Verizon and AT&T have been quietly tracking the Internet activity of more than 100 million cellular customers with what critics have dubbed "supercookies" - markers so powerful that it's difficult for even savvy users to escape them.

    The technology has allowed the companies to monitor which sites their customers visit, cataloging their tastes and interests. Consumers cannot erase these supercookies or evade them by using browser settings, such as the "private" or "incognito" modes that are popular among users wary of corporate or government surveillance.

    Verizon and AT&T say they have taken steps to alert their customers to the tracking and to protect customer privacy as the companies develop programs intended to help advertisers hone their pitches based on individual Internet behavior
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