U of T's
Citizen Lab is in the news once again.
Based out of the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, the pioneering institute that studies digital infrastructure and surveillance was featured on NPR's Morning Edition this week to address Hacking Team, an Italian-based tech firm that helped authoritarian governments break into the computers of activists, journalists, and ordinary citizens – basically, anyone who could be construed as a political threat.
Citizen Lab's Bill Marczak explained that Hacking Team worked by infecting computers with spyware which would make those computers' data susceptible to leaks. Ethiopia, Morocco, UAE, Oman and Saudi Arabia were all the company's clients. Though the company was recently hacked, it's continuing to meet global demand for the information it sells.
"Further sales are being negotiated," said Marczak.
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Source: NPR