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Gaddafi search poisoning

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Oct

2011

Here's an example of search poisoning somewhat similar to that predicted by Stephen Cobb using the death of Gaddafi as a hook, noted by our colleague Raphael Labaca Castro, of ESET Latin America. The original blog is in Spanish. Raphael reports an email that comes with the following title (in Portuguese, suggesting that Brazilian Internet users […]

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Government, Public Interest and Trojans

11

Oct

2011

Mikko Hyponen, who has been tracking the R2D2 thing assiduously, observes with some surprise that he hasn't seen a single article on "R2D2" that would try to defend the need for lawful interception. Actually, I haven't either, but I think there are at least two separate issues here. It seems fairly clear from the reports I've seen […]

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German Policeware: Use the Farce.er, Force.Luke

11

Oct

2011

On Saturday, another controversial report of a “government trojan” appeared. This time it is the German government that has been accused by the European hacker club Chaos Computer Club (CCC) of using “lawful interception” malware. Hence, “Bundestrojaner” (Federal Trojan), though that name is normally applied to the legal concept that allows German police to make […]

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