Leaked Documents Show That the FBI, DEA and Army All Purchased Hacking Team Spyware
Source: readersupportednews
he FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Army have all bought controversial software that allows users to take remote control of suspects computers, recording their calls, emails, keystrokes and even activating their cameras, according to internal documents hacked from the softwares Italian manufacturer.
The company, Hacking Team, has also been aggressively marketing the software to other U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies, demonstrating their products to district attorneys in New York, San Bernardino, California, and Maricopa, Arizona; and multi-agency task forces like the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation in Florida and Californias Regional Enforcement Allied Computer Team. (We do not use this product nor are we currently considering a proposal from the vendor/manufacturer to purchase it, Jerry Cobb, a spokesperson for the Maricopa County Attorneys Office said.)
The company was also in conversation with various other agencies, including the CIA, the Pentagons Criminal Investigative Service, the New York Police Department, and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
The revelations come from hundreds of gigabytes of company information, including emails and financial records, which were released online Sunday night and analyzed by The Intercept. Milan-based Hacking Team is one of a handful of companies that sell off-the-shelf spyware for hundreds of thousands of euros a price point accessible to smaller countries and large police forces. Hacking Team has drawn fire from human rights and privacy activists who contend that the companys aggressive malware, known as Remote Control System, or RCS, is being sold to countries that deploy it against activists, political opponents and journalists.
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cstanleytech
(26,294 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)there are still people out there that think this is news......
questionseverything
(9,656 posts)who knows maybe todays "glitches" are related
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)I bet the farm they are related...... and those same people bitch and moan about the wallstreet banksters with one hand while they have some degree of investment in the market with the other hand.... ain't life a beach!
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)really blame people for the in my opinion. Everyone wants to retire.
jomin41
(559 posts)Psephos
(8,032 posts)No one. And these criminals know it.
FBI, DEA, Army...NSA, DIA, DEA, DHS...et al., ad nauseum - all gone rogue.