Why Spy on Reporters?!

From WikiLeaks:

The Spyfiles 4

2014-09-15

Today, 15 September 2014, WikiLeaks releases previously unseen copies of weaponised German surveillance malware used by intelligence agencies around the world to spy on journalists, political dissidents and others.

FinFisher (formerly part of the UK based Gamma Group International until late 2013) is a German company that produces and sells computer intrusion systems, software exploits and remote monitoring systems that are capable of intercepting communications and data from OS X, Windows and Linux computers as well as Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile devices. FinFisher first came to public attention in December 2011 when WikiLeaks published documents detailing their products and business in the first SpyFiles release.

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I've Got My Own Back...

On The Electronic Frontier Foundation site I came across their very interesting page on counterespionage called: “Surveillance Self-Defence”, https://ssd.eff.org/en. On there I found https://ssd.eff.org/en/playlist/journalism-student. This Page discusses in-depth how to circumvent eavesdropping I'm your personal communications as a journalism student. I found this very interesting considering our context.

This sets up an interesting question:

Are we to simply accept that governmental eavesdropping is a just a fact in our new tech-heavy environment, and learn how to protect our own rights...from the very people entrusted to protect those rights????

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