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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."
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.
...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?
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.
Damn straight, let capitalism sort it out. It will create jobs, both in the weapons industry as well as the military, and as a side benefit, those military positions get freed up every now and then and have to be restocked with more unemployed people.
The system works!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
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.