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Syrian activists are being killed right now and identified, amongst other means, through smartphone spywares. In Myanmar, this kind of thing has circulated : h
by Iv 14y ago
Syrian activists are being killed right now and identified, amongst other means, through smartphone spywares.
In Myanmar, this kind of thing has circulated : http://www.crime-research.org/news/05.10.2007/2928/ http://www.crime-research.org/news/05.10.2007/2928/
Another virus, sent to the Dalai Lama's office, was used to track Tibetan sympathizers, probably by the Chinese government.
There are REAL cases where REAL people's life is put in danger. Everyone uses email know and usually do that on insecure platforms.
I almost support the person in this article, but I wished he would sell only to Europe and USA out of ethical concerns instead of simple profit optimization, because otherwise, he would have the same responsibility as an arms dealer selling weapons to Syria.
- fjarlq 14y agoHow much more ethical are Europe and the US?
- colinplamondon 14y agoWe tend not to bomb our own cities.
- dwiel 14y agoI dont think that by itself is enough to claim that one state is more or less ethical than another. Another metic you could use is who causes the most deaths, in which case the US is pretty high up on the unethical list.
- Iv 14y agoIt may make you laugh and there are serious offenses (cough wikileaks cough) but freedom of speech and of political opinion IS taken seriously, opponents are not "disappeared" on a regular basis in EU and US and they do not outlaw means to circumvent surveillance.