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Re:Hacking Team: a zero-day market case study by jaytaylor on Sunday July 26, 2015 @02:00AM (#9950314)
What is HACKING TEAMs motivation for publicly sharing all of this seemingly private underworld information?
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Re:Hacking Team: a zero-day market case study by josu on Sunday July 26, 2015 @02:06AM (#9950326)
They didn't share it voluntarily, they got hacked and 400GB of data from their servers turned up in a data dump.

http://leaksource.info/2015/07/07/hacking-team-hacked-400gb-...

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Re:Hacking Team: a zero-day market case study by jaytaylor on Sunday July 26, 2015 @02:11AM (#9950331)
I see, thank you for the context!

So then my next question would be what is this person hoping to do by publishing the info like this?

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Re:Hacking Team: a zero-day market case study by lawnchair_larry on Sunday July 26, 2015 @02:54AM (#9950394)
Activism. Hacking Team were not liked.
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Re:Hacking Team: a zero-day market case study by lcswi on Sunday July 26, 2015 @05:15AM (#9950594)
Exposing criminals.
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Re:Hacking Team: a zero-day market case study by MichaelCrawford on Sunday July 26, 2015 @02:32AM (#9950365)
Perhaps he sold short on tech stocks.
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