vendredi 2 décembre 2011

Wikileaks tracking cyber-espionage

The site WikiLeaks resumes today unveiled revelations and documents involving the open espionage practiced by the industry of the citizens, through their emails or other traces on the Internet.The site WikiLeaks has in the past, caused quite a stir in the world's governments. But lack of funding, platform revelations of Assange had stopped its activities in October this year. But the site has managed to bounce back, as shown by the documents published about this time espionage by governments, their own citizens through technology provided by manufacturers specializing in surveillance, the website said TF1 News.
Assange presented at a press conference, hundreds of files intercepted from 160 manufacturers based in 25 countries. These documents show how information collected is sold to its blind citizens, in exchange of emails, private conversations or traces left on the web.
"Today we are releasing more than 287 records showing the reality of an industry of large-scale monitoring - an industry that sells its equipment as well as dictatorships to democracies to spy on whole populations," said the founder of Wikileaks in London.
Among these documents, manuals for the powers that be how to use these huge databases. They appear to have been sold to authoritarian regimes in the Arab world like Syria, Libya, Tunisia and Egypt. Even more surprising, this information on a French company, Amesys, which made its trade intelligence solutions with the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. This file shows that seven emails from opponents, resident in the United Kingdom and the United States were intercepted through Amesys solutions.
With this revelation, Assange suggests that the surveillance industry has grown from a small part, such as government intelligence agencies, a global network. Experts who worked with WikiLeaks in connection with these leaks have called for regulation of the practice of espionage, by the voice of Eric King, the NGO Privacy International: "Western governments can not remain inactive when such Technology is for sale. "

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