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Digital safety for journalists edit
Surveillance, data storage capabilities and digital attack technologies are becoming more sophisticated, less expensive and more pervasive, making journalists increasingly vulnerable to digital attacks from both state and Non-state actors.[1]
In a number of states across multiple regions, broadly defined legislative acts have been seen by some as working to silence digital dissent, prosecute whistle blowers and expand arbitrary surveillance across multiple digital platforms.[2]
Project Raven edit
Project Raven was a U.A.E cyber-intelligence project where US contractors lead way for the government to surveil human rights activists, journalists and dissidents among others.
The project was initially managed by the USA-based cybersecurity contractor CyberPoint and HackingTeam but in 2016 it was moved to the UAE cybersecurity firm named DarkMatter[3][4]
Claims of terrorism defense edit
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- Ahmed Mansoor, an Emirati Human Rights activist.
- Mehmet Simsek, the former Turkish deputy prime minister
- several other US journalists[5]
Use of Karma spyware edit
Karma is a commercial spyware made that exploited vulnerabilties in iPhones that allowed remote access without any interaction from the user. The vulnerability resided in Apple's iMessage.
References edit
- ^ Marquis-Boire, Morgan. 2015. How governments are using spyware to attack free speech. Amnesty International. Available at https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2015/08/how-governments-are-using-spyware-to-attack-free-speech/
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- ^ "A New Age of Warfare: How Internet Mercenaries Do Battle for Authoritarian Governments". The New York Times. 2019-03-21. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
- ^ "UAE hired US hackers to spy on Al Jazeera chief, BBC journalist: Report | Middle East Eye". Retrieved 2019-09-28.