Photo Gallery Spying with German Technology
Surveillance technology produced in the West, including Germany, plays a key role in the power struggle between Arab despots and their protesting subjects. The Western software helps those in power spy on and persecute members of the opposition. It is a market worth billions, and the methods employed are often illegal in Germany.
Many are concerned that Western companies specializing in surveillance technology are selling their products to despotic countries in the Arab world.
Foto: AP
Jacob Applebaum is an activist who has helped alert bloggers in the Arab world to the dangers posed by surveillance and how to avoid them.
Foto: Marcel Rosenbach / DER SPIEGEL
This image from a FinFisher advertising video, describes how one of the company's products, called FinIntrusion, works. You entere a hotel lobby, say...
Activate the software, and you will be granted access to the usernames and passwords of those currently logged on to the hotel's WiFi network.
Then, headquarters has complete access to the targets' computers.
Foto: FinFisher
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