Company delivering government spyware to Blackberry’s to spy on

The firm FinFisher claims that a secret service with the help of his products have managed to install spyware on Blackberry’s. This may normally be encrypted communication on a Blackberry still be intercepted.

This is from the product information of various companies by The Wall Street Journal is collected during the ISS World-beveiligingsbeurs. At this fair are governments all over the world looking for products that allow mobile networks and internet traffic can be monitored, while there also may be advertised by companies that are ‘tailor-made’ spyware can deliver. The business daily has all the collected information published on The Surveillance Catalog.

In a marketingfolder claims the firm FinFisher that it is able to silently spyware on pcs and mobile phones by installing fake updates to popular software. So would an unnamed secret service have managed to make the FinSpy Mobile spyware to put on a number of Blackberry devices. This allowed the encrypted data from a Blackberry smartphone will still be read. FinFisher, which are leaflets also in Arabic, reports, claims further software from Apple, Google and Microsoft to spy on you.

The American company Net Optics, network equipment delivers that deep packet inspection is possible, late in his flyers know that the asset has been cooperated with a Chinese telecommunications company that mobile internet is offering. It reports Net Optics, that with its equipment it is possible to ‘unwanted content’ filter, a censuurmiddel that the Chinese government on a large scale, with its great firewall apply. The company release to The Wall Street Journal, however, know that the dpi hardware does not sell to countries on the Us black list.

At the ISS World trade shows, where journalists are not welcome, would companies increasingly meet the demand for their products from governments in the Middle East. In more and more Western countries, including the Netherlands, sounds from the politics, the requirement that companies must stop selling technology that can be used for internet censorship in dictatorial regimes.


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