Wednesday, August 03, 2016

UAE recruiting ‘elite task force’ for secret surveillance state...

The United Arab Emirates is recruiting an international team of computer experts to develop a far-reaching surveillance state covering Abu Dhabi and Dubai, Middle East Eye can reveal.

Italian security expert Simone Margaritelli divulged details of the project after recently travelling to Dubai for a job interview that turned out to be for what he described as an “extremely shady” surveillance system.

Margaritelli is a mobile security researcher who lives in Rome and works in the research and development team at the San Francisco-based mobile security company Zimperium.

He was targeted for recruitment by the UAE partly because of his work on BetterCap, an open source tool that eavesdrops on online communications. Full story...

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