[Infowarrior] - More on Hacking Team

[Richard Forno]

More on Hacking Team

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/07/more_on_hacking_1.html

Read this:

Hacking Team asked its customers to shut down operations, but according to one of the leaked files, as part of Hacking Team's "crisis procedure," it could have killed their operations remotely. The company, in fact, has "a backdoor" into every customer's software, giving it ability to suspend it or shut it down­ -- something that even customers aren't told about.

To make matters worse, every copy of Hacking Team's Galileo software is watermarked, according to the source, which means Hacking Team, and now everyone with access to this data dump, can find out who operates it and who they're targeting with it.

It's one thing to have dissatisfied customers. It's another to have dissatisfied customers with death squads. I don't think the company is going to survive this.



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