Indeed. Once we step beyond the ethics of what this company does (did?) and those who exposed the data, it will be interesting to see some proper analysis of the techniques used and if they relied on zero-day bugs, or Trojan installs, or maybe even state-instigated installation by suppliers/ISPs, etc.
Hacking Team hacked: Spyware source code torrent blurts govt customers
Italian surveillance-ware developer Hacking Team has been infiltrated by hackers, who have leaked online 400GB of secret source code and other internal data. The plundered booty is being shared via BitTorrent, and appears to include audio recordings, emails, documentation, invoices, and source code. Hacking Team sells the Da …
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Monday 6th July 2015 10:30 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: "claiming to only deal with ethical governments"
From the nation that gave us Mafiosi...
Oh puhleeze, they also gave us spaghetti, pizza and decent coffee. And without the latter two there would not be any software :)
Personally I'm not sorry they got hacked. Anyone who uses the term "ethical" to defend a business model without offering the required transparency to back that up pushes my BS detector well into the red.
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Monday 6th July 2015 10:48 GMT Anonymous Coward
Phones and internet accounts 26.000 citizens of Macedonia were indiscriminately tapped during the past 9 years. This came to the light by opposition releasing some of the tapped conversations between high-ranking government officials.
It is not known whether FinFisher or DaVinci was used for internet surveilance.
Companies like these deserve every bit of truble and misfortune that goes to them. They help create misery for innocent people. I hope that they go out of business, even worse..
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Monday 6th July 2015 21:56 GMT Anonymous Coward
Companies like these deserve every bit of trouble and misfortune that goes to them. They help create misery for innocent people. I hope that they go out of business, even worse..
I would propose a slightly different approach for such people: entirely remove their right to privacy for a couple of years. They should not even be able to take a dump without it being 24/7 available to anyone who is interested, without any knowledge who watches or how many. Phonecalls with live taps, SMS and messaging live mirrored, their computer desktop visible in read-only web broadcast - the works. Basically, move their entire private and business lives inside a panopticon and give them what they have no problem creating for others. Ditto for any government official who proposes measures to invade privacy without the required controls, accountability and transparency that such measures require (no, be realistic - law enforcement needs those tools and that's IMHO OK, it's the abuse that is the problem).
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Tuesday 7th July 2015 07:41 GMT Anonymous Coward
I really hope...
...that there are exploitable vulnerabilities in this code. Because a) more poetic justice, and b) the NSA and friends have always been telling us that they might have been intentionally attempting to weaken security of our computers and network but that's okay because only the good guys will have access to it. Oh, and c) it might help develop countermeasures against this particular product, or at least its current version anyway.