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En Ethiopie, le gouvernement bloque l’Internet mobile - 2 juin 2017
Les internautes éthiopiens sont privés de connexion depuis mardi 30 mai. Les autorités assurent qu’il s’agit d’éviter les fuites de sujets en cette période d’examens.
Mardi 30 mai, les internautes éthiopiens ont soudainement été privés d’Internet mobile, leur principal moyen de connexion. Le gouvernement a annoncé ce 1er juin, (...)
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How a Grad Student Found Spyware That Could Control Anybody’s iPhone from Anywhere in the World - 28 mars 2017
Last summer, Bill Marczak stumbled across a program that could spy on your iPhone’s contact list and messages"”and even record your calls. Illuminating shadowy firms that sell spyware to corrupt governments across the globe, Marczak’s story reveals the new arena of cyber-warfare.
The night it happened, right after (...)
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New database aims to track the global surveillance industry - 2 août 2016
Privacy International releases searchable database on more than 520 surveillance companies and the powerful tools they sell to governments
Privacy International, a London-based watchdog, has launched a new searchable database on hundreds of surveillance companies across the world, as part of an effort to track a (...)
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You need two to tango : The responsibility of companies to respect privacy and free expression in the digital age - 15 juin 2016
"State capacity to conduct surveillance may depend on the extent to which business enterprises cooperate with or resist such surveillance" notes the Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression in his report on the role of the private sector to respect human rights in the digital age. The Special Rapporteur will (...)
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Ethiopie : le révélateur de l’éthique de Hacking Team - 1er août 2015
L’éthique d’un vendeur d’armes, soient-elles numériques, est toujours un sujet de discussion sans fin. Depuis sa naissance, Reflets s’oppose vigoureusement, à grand coups d’articles, à la longue liste de ces commerçants d’un genre nouveau. Les raisons sont variées, mais on peut en citer quelques unes. La première est que de (...)
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Eight things we know so far from the Hacking Team hack - 12 juillet 2015
Here are eight things we have learned from this week’s hack of some 400GB of internal company material and correspondence from Italian surveillance company Hacking Team. If you don’t know who Hacking Team are, have a look at our briefing.
The Citizen Lab was right
The Citizen Lab, who in 2014 identified some 21 (...)
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A Detailed Look at Hacking Team’s Emails About Its Repressive Clients - 8 juillet 2015
Documents obtained by hackers from the Italian spyware manufacturer Hacking Team confirm that the company sells its powerful surveillance technology to countries with dubious human rights records.
Internal emails and financial records show that in the past five years, Hacking Team’s Remote Control System software (...)
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Hacking Team n’est pas une société de surveillance - 6 juillet 2015
Contrairement à ce qu’on a pu lire ici ou là , Hacking Team n’est pas à proprement parler une société de surveillance ou d’espionnage.
Hacking Team fournit des moyens illégaux aux autorités pour que ces dernières puissent mener des intrusions dans des systèmes cibles pour effectuer une surveillance des populations. La fuite (...)
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Le piratage spectaculaire de Hacking Team, société de surveillance des internautes - 6 juillet 2015
Hacking Team, une entreprise italienne spécialisée dans la surveillance des internautes, a été prise pour cible. Des fichiers confidentiels ont été exposés.
L’ONG Reporters sans frontières en a fait l’un des membres les plus éminents de sa liste des « Ennemis d’Internet ». Hacking Team, une société italienne qui fournit des (...)
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Ethiopia expands surveillance capacity with German tech via Lebanon - 23 mars 2015
German surveillance technology company Trovicor played a central role in expanding the Ethiopian government’s communications surveillance capacities, according to a joint investigation by Privacy International and netzpolitik.org.
The company, formerly part of Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), provided equipment to (...)
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Swiss Government forced to reveal destinations, cost of surveillance exports - 15 janvier 2015
In an enormous breakthrough for those seeking transparency and accountability to the shadowy surveillance industry, the Swiss Government has been forced to publish the list of export licenses for surveillance technologies and other equipment, including details of their cost and destination.
The decision by the (...)
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Un programme pour savoir si votre ordinateur est espionné - 20 novembre 2014
Imaginez que vous n’êtes jamais seul. Que quelqu’un vous regarde par-dessus votre épaule, enregistre tous les mouvements sur votre ordinateur ; lit et écoute toutes vos conversations sur skype, utilise le microphone et la caméra de votre téléphone portable. Tout cela à votre insu. C’est ce qui arrive à des milliers de (...)
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EFF to Ethiopia : Illegal Wiretapping Is Illegal, Even for Governments - 20 août 2014
Earlier this week, EFF told the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that Ethiopia must be held accountable for its illegal wiretapping of an American citizen. Foreign governments simply do not have a get-out-of-court-free card when they commit serious felonies in America against Americans. This case (...)
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You Can Get Hacked Just By Watching This Cat Video on YouTube - 17 août 2014
Many otherwise well-informed people think they have to do something wrong, or stupid, or insecure to get hacked"”like clicking on the wrong attachments, or browsing malicious websites. People also think that the NSA and its international partners are the only ones who have turned the internet into a militarized (...)
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Leaked Files : German Spy Company Helped Bahrain Hack Arab Spring Protesters - 8 août 2014
A notorious surveillance technology company that helps governments around the world spy on their citizens sold software to Bahrain during that country’s brutal response to the Arab Spring movement, according to leaked internal documents posted this week on the internet.
The documents show that FinFisher, a German (...)
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Network surveillance : Qosmos, a tool provider for Syria’s leader al-Assad - 10 mai 2014
November 2011 : Bloomberg unveils that a French company, Qosmos, leader on net surveillance tool known as Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), is a subcontractor of German corporation Utimaco, which is itself outsourcing for Area Spa "“ an Italian firm "“ for a contract on a massive network monitoring system for Bashar (...)
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"They Know Everything We Do" : Telecom and Internet Surveillance in Ethiopia - 1er avril 2014
The 137 page report details the technologies the Ethiopian government has acquired from several countries and uses to facilitate surveillance of perceived political opponents inside the country and among the diaspora. The government’s surveillance practices violate the rights to freedom of expression, association, (...)
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New Report on Ethiopia Examines the Off-the-Shelf Surveillance State - 27 mars 2014
Rumors of the extent of Ethiopia’s digital surveillance and censorship state have echoed around the information security community for years. Journalists such as Eskinder Nega have spoken of being shown text messages, printouts of emails, and recordings of their own telephone conversations by the Ethiopian security (...)
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Following the money : How States are funding surveillance technologies - 26 mars 2014
Surveillance companies selling mass and intrusive spy technologies to human rights-abusing governments often are benefitting from the financial and institutional support from their home government, revealing a more closely-linked relationship between the sector and the State than previously believed.
Recent (...)
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Exploiting privacy : Surveillance companies pushing zero-day exploits - 10 mars 2014
Private surveillance companies selling some of the most intrusive surveillance systems available today are in the business of purchasing security vulnerabilities of widely-used software, and bundling it together with their own intrusion products to provide their customers unprecedented access to a target’s computer (...)
