A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official’s phone records and use Mexico City’s surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency’s informants in 2018, according to a new US justice department report.
The incident was disclosed in a justice department inspector general’s audit of the FBI’s efforts to mitigate the effects of “ubiquitous technical surveillance”, a term used to describe the global proliferation of cameras and the thriving trade in vast stores of communications, travel, and location data.
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One thing I think most people don’t discuss enough is that surveillance and censorship software can also get exploited.
Another recent example is Wallbleed: A Memory Disclosure Vulnerability in the Great Firewall of China
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Any day now, we’ll start using funds meant for hacking to just plug up all the security vulnerabilities.
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