How Spyware Reaches Oppressive Governments 109
New submitter blando writes "Between February and March of 2011, at the height of Egypt's tumultuous revolution, protesters stormed the offices of their feared State Security Investigations Service in Alexandria and Sixth of October city, on the edge of Cairo. It was there, amongst evidence of detentions, torture and surveillance at SSIS's headquarters, that information first came to light regarding a sales pitch by UK-based Gamma Group to Egypt's security agency for their FinFisher spyware."
Re:if you are capitalist in a western nation (Score:5, Funny)
i'm going to hide my name and lurk on internet forums and cast mindless negativity and hateful judgments at anyone who proposes anything concrete or positive in the world, without knowing anything about the person or what they are doing
what do you think? because i think a person like that is awesome
IBM were HINDERING Nazi Germany (Score:2, Funny)
Anyone whose used IBM kit knows that actually they were trying to HINDER Nazi Germany by slowing down the efficient Germans with business speak and Business Process Gurus.
They almost succeeded too, if only they'd held that last six sigma analysis pre-meeting agenda discussion review, they'd have made it through the war!
Have you ever heard of any project IBM has been involved in, that actually HELPED the customer???? ...QED.