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Hacking Team Denies Selling Spyware to Sketchy Governments

Posted on February 24, 2014 by pogowasright.org

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports:

Surveillance-technology company Hacking Team denied selling its spyware to 21 countries, including those that suppress civil liberties, following a damning report published last week.

Cyber sleuths at the University of Toronto’ Citizen Lab reported that they had found traces of Hacking Team’s software in 21 countries, including some with poor human-rights records such as Sudan, Azerbaijan and Saudi Arabia.

Read more on Mashable.

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