UAE Cyber Tech to Repress Activists; Hacking Team Death Squad; Spying on Internet Worse than Phones

Tuesday, July 14, 2015 21:40

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Adviser to Cyber Program at NYU’s UAE Campus Linked to Spy Tech Used to Repress Activists. The technology has been used to crack down on pro-democracy activists in the UAE, some of whom found Hacking Team software surreptitiously implanted on their computers.

Hacking Team Emails Expose Proposed Death Squad Deal, Secret U.K. Sales Push and Much More. Adding to the work of my colleagues to analyze the 400 gigabyte trove of hacked data, here’s a selection of the notable details I have found so far.

Spying on the Internet is Orders of Magnitude More Invasive Than Phone Metadata. Congress has failed to limit the scope of programs like XKEYSCORE, which is presumably still operating at full speed.