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I wonder how long until someone does "FinFisher, Community Edition". While FinFisher was a huge threat to people like democracy advocates in Bahrain (which is

by rdl 12y ago

I wonder how long until someone does "FinFisher, Community Edition". While FinFisher was a huge threat to people like democracy advocates in Bahrain (which is what I am hopefully speaking about at SXSW 2015...), now it's out there and even FVEY friendly organizations need to fear it. FFCE should be usable by pure criminal or even script kiddie type organizations. FF was a pretty decent package, but freed of licensing constraints and designed for more autonomous deployment, FFCE should rapidly surpass it. (EDIT: Apparently not too long: https://github.com/FinFisher https://github.com/FinFisher)

higherpurpose 12y ago
That's done by the company itself, though. Not sure how this is going to serve them. Won't everyone (who cares about this) see exactly what they are trying to do, and then fight against it? I saw Jake Appelbaum even ask the Chrome team to pay attention to it, so they know how to protect users against it. Also, the same way Popcorn Time repositories got banned from Github, couldn't this be banned, too, for malware/cybercrime, etc? What's Github's policy on that?
- maxmcd 12y ago
  This is from the company itself? It's promoted by the mentioned twitter account: https://twitter.com/gammagrouppr https://twitter.com/gammagrouppr That's a spoof account, no?
- UVB-76 12y ago
  That GitHub account is a parody, set up after the leaks, in the same vein as the parody Twitter account [1] [1] https://twitter.com/GammaGroupPR/status/496787518302748672 https://twitter.com/GammaGroupPR/status/496787518302748672
- starnixgod 12y ago
  popcorntime was taken "banned" due to a DMCA take down requested by the MPAA[1] and not for violating Github rules which are pretty permissive[2]. 1. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/3ccbdf1e3d20c78616c9a0953b387c6a0e6bfc52/2014-07-11-MPAA.md https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/3ccbdf1e3d20c78616c9a095... 2. See G7 - https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service
  - Buge 12y ago
    I would expect to see a DMCA request from Gamma as well. This seems like a better application for a DMCA than Popcorntime. This is actual copyrighted stuff taken from Gamma. With Popcorntime it was just a tool that could be used for taking copyrighted stuff.
  - jevinskie 12y ago
    Ah, what a "fun" repo. I feel somewhat proud to have contributed code to a repo that was part of the first DMCA takedown that Github has in the dmca repo. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2011-01-27-sony.markdown https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2011-01-27-sony.m...

by rdl 12y ago

higherpurpose 12y ago

That's done by the company itself, though. Not sure how this is going to serve them. Won't everyone (who cares about this) see exactly what they are trying to do, and then fight against it? I saw Jake Appelbaum even ask the Chrome team to pay attention to it, so they know how to protect users against it. Also, the same way Popcorn Time repositories got banned from Github, couldn't this be banned, too, for malware/cybercrime, etc? What's Github's policy on that?

maxmcd 12y ago
This is from the company itself? It's promoted by the mentioned twitter account: https://twitter.com/gammagrouppr https://twitter.com/gammagrouppr That's a spoof account, no?
UVB-76 12y ago
That GitHub account is a parody, set up after the leaks, in the same vein as the parody Twitter account [1] [1] https://twitter.com/GammaGroupPR/status/496787518302748672 https://twitter.com/GammaGroupPR/status/496787518302748672
starnixgod 12y ago
popcorntime was taken "banned" due to a DMCA take down requested by the MPAA[1] and not for violating Github rules which are pretty permissive[2]. 1. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/3ccbdf1e3d20c78616c9a0953b387c6a0e6bfc52/2014-07-11-MPAA.md https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/3ccbdf1e3d20c78616c9a095... 2. See G7 - https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service
- Buge 12y ago
  I would expect to see a DMCA request from Gamma as well. This seems like a better application for a DMCA than Popcorntime. This is actual copyrighted stuff taken from Gamma. With Popcorntime it was just a tool that could be used for taking copyrighted stuff.
- jevinskie 12y ago
  Ah, what a "fun" repo. I feel somewhat proud to have contributed code to a repo that was part of the first DMCA takedown that Github has in the dmca repo. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2011-01-27-sony.markdown https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2011-01-27-sony.m...