WikiLeaks pin industry espionage mass

Four days before being fixed by the court on its ability to appeal to the Supreme Court of British or having to face extradition to Sweden, Assange strikes another blow. The herald of freedom of information unveiled Thursday at a London record of revelations about his site WikiLeaks devoted to electronic surveillance of citizens."Mass surveillance has become the last ten years an international industry that sells its services to dictators to spy on whole populations," denounced Assange at a press conference. "Who here has an iPhone, a BlackBerry or using Gmail," he questioned, before announcing a forest of hands raised in an auditorium of the City University of London, "Well you're stuck." Gmail the platform of e-mails from Google, is permeable to the monitoring of all software on the market.
The file Spyfiles WikiLeaks posted on Thursday revealed 287 documents from more than 160 companies specializing in electronic surveillance for the benefit of 25 states. Listening to telephone conversations, locate a phone via GPS, interception of e-mail, and sending false SMS, change the text of SMS sent pictures of you or the place where you are taken without your knowledge smartphone with your own child's play for this software. "The phones we use are inherently designed to accommodate technology tracking and monitoring," said Jacob Applebaum, security expert at the University of Washington.Big Brother
These technological feats are not new. They are thriving since September 11, 2001 and the strengthening of the international terrorist threat. WikiLeaks drives the point home by pointing to companies that sell the tools of authoritarian regimes to track their opponents. As the French Amesys, an SME based in Paris and Aix-en-Provence, a subsidiary of Group Bull since 2010. Amesys sold surveillance systems such as software Eagle Glint, banned in France and the United Kingdom to Gaddafi's Libya, allowing it to spy on e-mail, Google searches or "cats" on the Internet his opponents in the country and abroad, including the United Kingdom. Founding member of the National Transitional Council of Libya have been victims of piracy.
The German company Elaman evokes in his sales can "identify political opponents." The British Creativity Software has sold its tracking systems to Iran, until this year. Such tools were also bought by Syria of Assad and the Tunisian regime of Ben Ali.
"People are killed every day because of this information," said Jacob Applebaum. WikiLeaks denounce the proliferation of commerce worthy of Big Brother in the absence of strict international regulation and state levels.