Re:Living up to our values and the Neutrino acquisition
by oh_sigh on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @12:11AM
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What's their connection with Neutrino? Does it just so happen that some ex-members of HackingTeam worked there at that time? Was it founded by ex-HackingTeam people?
Re:Living up to our values and the Neutrino acquisition
by joshmn on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @12:18AM
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https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/04/neutrino-employees-who-onc...
> Before launching Neutrino, CEO Giancarlo Russo, CTO Alberto Ornaghi and chief research officer Marco Valleri, worked at Hacking Team, a security and surveillance tech company that has been criticized for selling products to governments with a history of human rights violations, including Egypt, Kazakhstan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Turkey. As The Intercept reported in 2015, Hacking Team’s malware has also been found on the computers of activists and journalists.
HackingTeam is a Milan-based information technology company that sells offensive intrusion and surveillance capabilities to governments, law enforcement agencies and corporations. Its "Remote Control Systems" enable governments and corporations to monitor the communications of internet users, decipher their encrypted files and emails, record Skype and other Voice over IP communications, and remotely activate microphones and camera on target computers. The company has been criticized for providing these capabilities to governments with poor human rights records, though HackingTeam states that they have the ability to disable their software if it is used unethically.