“Software Meant to Fight Crime Is Used to Spy on Dissidents” @ NY Times
Posted on September 4, 2012
Nicole Perlroth — August 30, 2012: “SAN FRANCISCO — Morgan Marquis-Boire works as a Google engineer and Bill Marczak is earning a Ph.D. in computer science. But this summer, the two men have been moonlighting as detectives, chasing an elusive surveillance tool from Bahrain across five continents.
What they found was the widespread use of sophisticated, off-the-shelf computer espionage software by governments with questionable records on human rights………………………….”
Read more at The New York Times.
