Long story in Bloomberg.
Short out-take of interest:
The spyware that penetrated his laptop appears to be a Western-made
surveillance tool sold to police and intelligence agencies that’s so
powerful it can turn on webcams and microphones and grab documents off
hard drives, according to the findings of a study being published today
by the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs’ Citizen Lab.
Mansoor’s predicament shows how nations have rapidly moved beyond the surveillance
of phone and e-mail transmissions to rifle through the most intimate
details stored by personal computers and the smartphones that citizens
carry with them everywhere. The tools, which can peer into people's
living rooms and access rough drafts of love letters, business
strategies or plans for street demonstrations, mark the latest
escalation in a digital arms race between governments and the people
they watch.
Which "gummints and police agencies"?
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