Hacking Team , the troupe now equally known for selling intrusive spyware to governments and get royally hack on , has Scripture for hoi polloi who disagree with its habit ofpeddling powerful cyberweaponsto regimes with terrible human right records : What ’s a “ repressive ” regime , anyway ?
I asked Hacking Team if someone would speak directly to its reputation for selling its outback access spyware — which have law enforcement and governments turn on webcams , record book phone calls , steal data file , and racecourse messages — to inhibitory regimes . US interpreter Eric Rabe informed me that it ’s all proportional :
This issue may come out to be wide-eyed . In reality it is a complicated one for several reason . For one affair , some have judge certain foresightful - clip allies of the West “ repressive . ” Furthermore , it happens that government change , and , therefore they become more or less criticized over time .
Hacking Team ’s excuse for its outlandish roster of clients basically boils down to “ you say terrorist , I say freedom fighter aircraft , nothing matters lol . ” Just because some fuddy - duddy activist group like the UN puts LABELS on a government does n’t mean it ’s necessarily “ repressive , ” you hippie . Which excuse why Hacking Team adjudicate to sell spyware to Sudan ’s intelligence Robert William Service in 2012 , even though UN sanctions prohibited the sale of weapon , include digital weapons , at that clock time .
( The leak emails show that hack Teamhalted sales to Sudan in 2014 , after pressing from a UN board monitoring the effectuation of weapon system sanctions in Sudan . )
But wait , there is more self-justification :
at last , even some governments that are deep criticized by some activist may have a very legitimate indigence for our technology . For example , such a state , though the focus of activist anger , may also be a upbringing priming coat for terrorists . The technology provided by HackingTeam is peculiarly useful in find and prosecuting terrorist .
Ah , gotcha , cool coolheaded . So when Hacking Team decided to renew its permit with Ethiopia ’s Information web Security Agency even after the INSA was pick up to be using the software package to spy on journalist , it was because INSA also desire it to defend terrorists … except INSAcategorized the journalists as terrorist …
This muddled prescribed excuse is similar to the pipeline of suppose Hacking Team CEO and co - founder David Vincenzetti put forth inone of his leaked electronic mail to a colleague , where he complain about the negative press Hacking Team receives for its clientele :
“ I have a enquiry for you all : PLEASE NAME a exclusive really ‘ democratic ’ country , a country which does not transgress anybody ’s right hand and has a TOTALLY clean human right platter , ” he indite .
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