Aww yiss, I'm following the story since it started. It's hilarious.
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I read about it a lot since the story emerged - especially as it turned out a lot of my country government agencies were their clients. most controversial one is that one of agencies ordered a RCS to spy on citizens mobile phones, while according to polish law any surveilence of citizen which includes eavesdropping his phonecalls, capturing their emails or SMS' etc requires agency to get a court permission, which they were not getting.
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I think all those stories could happen, or already happen, everywhere. No one says anything, all it's done secretly and once news emerge you can only take informations about, but almost of the people don't care, so everything get covered-up and you finish to don't know anymore about what happened to those agencies.
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One of the main problem seems to be their statement about the fact they sold the software only to democratic and legitimate governments, but instead came to light they sold all that also to dictatorial governments, where it was used against journalists and so on.
dictatorial governments like USA and their espionage on brazil and other countries? :3
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That's what you get when you use "Passw0rd" as your password
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oh.... wait, I need to change my password then... I'll go back to "12345", it feels safer
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Lol, i was at a party and a friend of mine was using his PC with Virtual DJ to mix up music, but after some inactivities it required the password to get back to the desktop.
So we asked him "Yo what's the password?" - "password".
lel, at least they put the zero instead the o.
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Maybe they go by a different definition of "democratic and legitimate governments" than the rest of us. :P
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Did you read about Hacking Team? If not i suggest you to do a quick search:
http://www.welivesecurity.com/2015/07/06/400gb-info-leaked-hacking-team/
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/07/eff-join-latin-american-civil-society-calls-greater-oversight-surveillance
Those are first two links i've found doing a quick googling, but i bet you can find some more informations about it.
Basically Hacking Team is an Italian society, and the name seems to say all. They produce espionage software, and they are one of the most important company in the world. Their consumers are, in fact, governments from all the world.
A huge database of over 400 GB has been leaked after someone decided to attack and hack their system. So everything came up, from the source code published to GitHub, to e-mails, passwords, contracts, sales, etc.
One of the main problem seems to be their statement about the fact they sold the software only to democratic and legitimate governments, but instead came to light they sold all that also to dictatorial governments, where it was used against journalists and so on.
The worst thing, also, seems to be that a so huge company about hacking and security has been hacked down without any attemp to protect themselves from other hackers. 400 GB are enough to be stole in only a whole night without anyone can notice it.
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