The
open-source tool was developed by security researcher Claudio
Guarnieri, a security researcher who has been investigating government
abuse of spyware for years. He often collaborates with other
researchers at University of Toronto's Citizen Lab.
During their investigations, Guarnieri and his colleagues discovered,
for example, that the Bahraini government used software created by
German company FinFisher to spy on human rights activists. They also
found out that the Ethiopian government spied on journalists in the
U.S. and Europe, using software developed by Hacking Team, another
company that sells off-the-shelf surveillance tools. [..]
Detekt only works with Windows, and it's designed to discover malware
developed both by commercial firms, as well as popular spyware used by
cybercriminals, such as BlackShades RAT (Remote Access Tool) and Gh0st
RAT.
The tool has some limitations, though: It's only a scanner, and doesn't
remove the malware infection, which is why Detekt's official site warns
that if there are traces of malware on your computer, you should stop
using it "immediately," and and look for help. It also might not detect
newer versions of the spyware developed by FinFisher, Hacking Team and
similar companies.
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I've become completely opposed to the government protecting itself. If they exist to protect themselves from me, at my expense, then they don't need to exist. Shut the whole damn thing down. This whole notion that the the president and members of the general, national, collective gov. are so vital to my interests that they must be protected from me is fully opposed to the idea "of the people, by the people, and for the people." We need to start over and rethink that shit.
ReplyDeleteway copacetic
ReplyDeleteIf I were a gov't organization wanting to promulgate spyware, I'd disguise it as anti-spyware.
ReplyDeleteJust sayin' …
(What? I know nothing, nuth-thing!)
oui; "the genius that might induce we guilty-minded into ourselves installing a direct pipeline "
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