[Infowarrior] - Secret Manuals Show the Spyware Sold to Despots and Cops Worldwide

[Richard Forno]

Secret Manuals Show the Spyware Sold to Despots and Cops Worldwide

By Cora Currier and Morgan Marquis-Boire
Today at 8:39 AM

When Apple and Google unveiled new encryption schemes last month, law enforcement officials complained that they wouldn’t be able to unlock evidence on criminals’ digital devices. What they didn’t say is that there are already methods to bypass encryption, thanks to off-the-shelf digital implants readily available to the smallest national agencies and the largest city police forces — easy-to-use software that takes over and monitors digital devices in real time, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.

We’re publishing in full, for the first time, manuals explaining the prominent commercial implant software “Remote Control System,” manufactured by the Italian company Hacking Team. Despite FBI director James Comey’s dire warnings about the impact of widespread data scrambling — “criminals and terrorists would like nothing more,” he declared — Hacking Team explicitly promises on its website that its software can “defeat encryption.”

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

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