“Wikileaks has a web page called the Spy Files that shows off a number of Internet surveillance products meant for government agencies,” Electronista reports. “The confidential brochures and slide presentations are made for law enforcement and authoritarian regimes and can be used to spy on the public and track political dissidents.”
“The surveillance industry is unregulated, allowing governments, authorities and military to quietly track and intercept calls and e-mails and take over computers, Wikileaks believes,” Electronista reports. “One such example includes DigiTask’s remote forensic software that works on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X computers, and some smartphones and is made to circumvent SSL encryption by intercepting the keys on the local system. It can then intercept IMs, e-mails, key logs, remote file access, screenshot capture and Internet activity.”
Electronista reports, “DigiTask also makes a standalone wireless portable system called WifiCatcher that can intercept data fron public Wi-Fi hotspots.”
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Leander Kahney reports for Cult of Mac, “The industry is selling software to government agencies — some of it delivered by Trojans — that can take over your iPhone. It can track its every use, follow your movements (even in standby), recognize your voice, record conversations, and even capture video and audio from the room it is in.”
“It’s not just limited to iPhones, of course. There are various spyware packages that run on PCs, Android and Blackberry,” Kahney reports. “The uses are mind-boggling. The CIA, for example, is using phone-tracking software to target drone strikes in the Middle East and Central Asia.”
Kahney reports, “Wikileaks has promised to release hundreds of documents about 160 intelligence contractors in the mass surveillance industry through the rest of this month and next year. It released 278 documents on Thursday. Wikileaks is working with several privacy and media organizations.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward Weber” for the heads up.]