Massive leak reveals Hacking Team's most private moments in messy detail
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/07/massive-leak-reveals-hacking-teams-most-private-moments-in-messy-detail/
Privacy and human rights advocates are having a field day picking
through a massive leak purporting to show spyware developer
Hacking Team's most candid moments, including documents that
appear to contradict the company's carefully scripted PR campaign.
"Imagine this: a leak on WikiLeaks showing YOU explaining the
evilest technology on earth! :-)," Hacking Team CEO David
Vincenzetti wrote in a June 8 e-mail to company employees
including Walter Furlan, whose LinkedIn profile lists him as the
international sales engineer of the spyware developer. "You would
be demonized by our dearest friends the activists, and normal
people would point their fingers at you." Other documents
suggested the US FBI was among the customers paying for software
that allowed targets to be surreptitiously surveilled as they used
computers or smartphones. According to one spreadsheet first
reported by Wired, the FBI paid Hacking Team more than $773,226.64
since 2011 for services related to the Hacking Team product known
as "Remote Control Service," which is also marketed under the name
"Galileo." One spreadsheet column listed simply as "Exploit" is
marked "yes" for a sale in 2012, an indication Hacking Group may
have bundled some sort of attack code that remotely hijacked
targets' computers or phones. Previously, the FBI has been known
to have wielded a Firefox exploit to decloak child pornography
suspects using Tor.
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