Phineas Fisher's account of how he took down HackingTeam

Re:Phineas Fisher's account of how he took down HackingTeam by mercurial on Sunday April 17, 2016 @02:36AM (#11513734)

> Hacking Team was a company that [...]

AFAIK, they are still operating and still doing exactly the same thing.

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Re:Phineas Fisher's account of how he took down HackingTeam by Kristine1975 on Sunday April 17, 2016 @06:26AM (#11514068)

Here's a rather technical article on what they are apparently up to: https://reverse.put.as/2016/02/29/the-italian-morons-are-bac...

HackingTeam latest sample is a very fresh sample compared with what we got in the past, it is a sample created post July 2015 hack, and it’s using the same code base as before. HackingTeam is still alive and kicking but they are still the same crap morons as the email leaks have shown us.

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Re:Phineas Fisher's account of how he took down HackingTeam by chinathrow on Sunday April 17, 2016 @05:19AM (#11513953)

They just lost their export license.

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Re:Phineas Fisher's account of how he took down HackingTeam by mintplant on Sunday April 17, 2016 @05:56AM (#11514012)

More information:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hacking-team-has-lost-its-l...

Quote:

"We can sell everywhere in Europe without a license. We can sell everywhere in the world but we have to ask for a license every time we sell."

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Re:Phineas Fisher's account of how he took down HackingTeam by mercurial on Monday April 18, 2016 @04:41PM (#11523001)

My heart bleeds. The question is, how hard is it for a company like that to get an individual license if they have a cozy relationship with law enforcement, which wouldn't be very surprising in their case?

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Re:Phineas Fisher's account of how he took down HackingTeam by nicelynicely on Sunday April 17, 2016 @06:25AM (#11514067)

They can sell to Europeans only.

This means they sell black market now to outside EU.

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