Wikileaks: surveillance of communications, with a well

The market for interception and monitoring of mass communications (mobile, Internet ...) has many technologies and suppliers, as illustrated in internal documents released by Wikileaks. Democratic states, including France, are the main exporters of these technologies, and often little regard buyers.Debate
Wikileaks is back and longer publishes many documents highlighting the development of surveillance technology by private companies and the nature of a lucrative boom industry.
These internal documents such as sales brochures and manuals, speeches contrast with the providers of these solutions, which often tend to hide the real purpose of the latter.
The business case less smooth than the official speeches
SpyFiles called, this new operation Wikileaks conducted in partnership with several media, including Owni in France, pin the big names in the industry such as Nokia-Siemens, Qosmos, Thales, Bluecoat, or the French Amesys.
This company is not really an unknown since his role was revealed in the provision of a monitoring system of the Internet in Libya, with the assistance of the French state, and for the benefit of the regime of dictator Gaddafi.
The Arab revolutions succeed for several months. The big democratic states, including France, are supporting the protests. Problem, the documents disclosed by Wikileaks cause concern to some schizophrenia on the part of those countries.
"Like the arms dealers? Traditional?, Most of them [Editor's note: sellers of technologies of surveillance and interception] are located in rich and democratic. 12 of the 26 countries surveyed are thus part of the European Union which, in total, accounts for 62 of these companies "write Owni of our colleagues.
Electronic controlled weapons just for export?
And these companies thrive through a legal loophole allowing private companies to export these technologies, especially in authoritarian states such as Syria and Bahrain.
Yet it is unlikely that the government is unaware of these technology products, whose market is estimated at several billion dollars? and constantly increasing.
The authorities of the democratic countries are in fact themselves customers of these suppliers. A Fair organized by industry experts, ISS, and held last October in Washington.
At the conference program as "Why terabits are not a hindrance" or "exploit vulnerabilities in computers and mobile electronic surveillance." Were invited representatives of the FBI, military and secret services.