A bill for services between the Police Investigations and Hacking Team, one of the most important digital security companies in the world and provides spyware governments, police and intelligence agencies, allowed reveal the purchase by Research Remote Control System Galileo, in an amount close to three million dollars.
The information was made public by the Italian company suffered a hacking attack that leaked more than 500 gigabytes of confidential data, invoices and details of a controversial client base including there are several oppressive regimes like Sudan, Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia, in addition to our investigative police.
According to research by Privacy International, Remote Control System Galileo is able to circumvent the encryption communication software and record Skype calls, e-mail, instant messaging, web browsing history and device files and photos, even if they have been eliminated. Records each key and button has been pressed. In addition, you can take control of the microphones and cameras of the device, using them to see and hear his victim, and use the GPS system to monitor their location
Felipe Paredes, head of research and development at P & Dev. P Chile that the consequences of the leak is serious, especially for the Italian company, because “the disclosures are the source of the programs involving codes, which means that one could recode all the software and make it unusable.”
In addition to Paredes, in terms of market “is bad for a security company that its servers have been violated, for better or for worse they sell is promising to properly safeguard information.”
Paul Viollier, the NGO Digital Rights, said that “this technology is so invasive that their acquisition and use must adhere to the high standards set by the Inter-American Human Rights System”.
Also, Cristian Cruz, a lawyer for Human Rights, said the purchase looks suspicious, since it opens the possibility that any citizen spy and that “at least, to give greater guarantees should be in hands of the Public Ministry can ensure that only will be used to judicialized research and not for political research “.
” These purchases made between cocks and midnight show also are technically inefficient, because if the idea was to shelter of computer and prosecute crime, well, attacks and it became clear that the software is not impenetrable, so that the political and technical decision to buy this software was a mistake and therefore someone has to respond “summoned.
The deputy Rene Saffirio (DC) indicated that this software, which allows a massive intrusion and not just communications, has no justification for it in the hands of the investigative police, because “they can only act these intrusive measures in the event that the court authorize intervenís communications. “
” There are here with the use of these technologies a kind of interference in matters that could not be part of the investigation or authorizations established for justice, the use of which will be ignored by the Police Investigations “.
Finally, it should be noted that the Investigative Police said through a press release the software was acquired as part of a modernization project of the technological area of the PDI, with the aim to “increase its operational capabilities in the investigation of organized crime.”
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