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For Sale: Internet Spying Business Developed For Gaddafi
itwbennett writes "French computer company Bull Group is looking to sell off the Internet spying software business of its subsidiary Amesys. The Eagle system, which was 'designed to build databases supporting lawful interception activities on the Internet,' has an interesting pedigree, having been 'developed for Libya after signing a 2007 contract with the regime there,' according to the WSJ."
Expect a bid from a US-government backed shell corporation any day now.
It's never even been used.
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If Bill C-11 passes, I imagine the government would love to have a unit like this to police the internets.
in order to make their DMCA take down requests 99% more accurate than they have been to date!
Even if my "virtuous" country had barred it's companies from working for Teh Eevil, some other not no virtuous country's companies will be more than willing to do the work (and employ it's workers at the same time).
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
...ensues long patent lawsuits from Google and Facebook...
It's not like you can't already buy software for that. Most of the suppliers for these have a long list of non disclosed governmental agencies of various countries as their customers. I'm fairly certain most will also have sold their product to regimes that were considered "okay" at the time but fell from grace later on.
I was promised a flying car. Where is my flying car?
They should have never rescued the US, which subsequently evolved into the "great Satan", from Great Britain. The US is a horrid miserable failed experiment and is the root of the majority of the world's evil.
Fucking losers.
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By the way, Mr. Troll, you seem to have homo-erotic fantasies. They're almost inevitably rooted in suppressed desire. You are probably a gay troll, whether you know it or not. It doesn't bother me, I'm hetero and I don't feel threatened, but given your apparent attitude, you must kill yourself. Please do so at your earliest opportunity.
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By the way, Mr. Troll, you seem to have homoerotic fantasies. They're almosr inevitably rooted in surpressed desire. You are probably a gay troll, whether you know it or not. It doesn't bother me, I'm hetero and I don't feel threatened, but given your apparent attitude, you must kill yourself. Please do so at your earliest opportunity.
Anyone want to go halfs with me?
I worked, briefly, for a now defunct HPC company who were partners with Bull, and had contracts with various three letter agencies around the world. I'd always refused to work for "defence" companies before, and naive little me didn't quite twig at the time that the majority of super computers weren't exactly being used to cure cancer. It made me feel very dirty once I realised what a lot of the customers were using their systems for.
See yeah, the news that Bull were contracted to spy for the Libyans doesn't surprise me, and I'm very glad that I don't work in that industry any more.
I know that there will be many buyers. The question is "Who?". It will be interesting to find out their identity. Maybe Anonymous can find out because the corporation will probably want to keep the list of their customers secret.
If only more trolls had lives.
Pretty sure it would be easy to dissuade a potential buyer, their only review from a satisfied customer was his last video entry to the world.
Lucky there is a still huge (and growing) market for that!
May Peace Prevail On Earth
Shush. They make excellent cheeses, which is more than enough reason to keep them in good company.
I am John Hurt.
Current France's president is quite unlikely to support that kind of investigation, given how close it got with Ghadaffi. We can be confident that french authorities validated the sell of this software. Fortunately, president Sarkozy is about to be shown the door on upcoming elections.
Since Gaddafi is, you know, sorta dead.
But luckily, there is no end of customers who want this stuff - and they probably don't even have to look overseas.
I must wonder...
Wasn't it a great product as long as Gaddafi was legitimate? And now it isn't, anymore? Awww...
Why the down-vote? They do make excellent cheeses.
I am John Hurt.
So, let's get our hands on this. Maybe the EFF will jump in and we can turn the steering wheel. It most probably has been developed to spy on fellow citizens and suppress their human rights, but who said billion dollar companies would have them? ;-) We could use it to find out, what Grand Inquisitors Google and Facebook is doing exactly with our data.
Hello?? Fred?! Is this you?