shockedcanadian
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Americas enemies remind the U.S why they can't be trusted. Buying spy technology that is used to spy on foreign adversaries, terrorists and the like, which is fairly old now and for which all we know could allow actors almost as bad as Canadian police to spy as well.
Your "ally" and those who claim they "share your values".
Don't believe it. Not for a minute.
www.thestar.com
Canadian cops are quietly deploying phone-hacking spyware to conduct investigations, and they may be buying it from a U.S-Israeli firm accused of spying on journalists and activists.
These details are revealed in a new investigation conducted by The Citizen Lab, a group of digital sleuths and civil liberties advocates at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. Citizen Lab provided an advanced copy to the Star.
Their findings should have us incensed. Not only are Canadian police aggressively deploying this software — which exploits vulnerabilities in technology that we all use — without informing the public, but worse yet they are sourcing this technology from a firm which, the Citizen Lab alleges, is helping spy on journalists and dissidents.
Over a months-long investigation, the Citizen Lab uncovered evidence which suggests the Ontario Provincial Police dealt with a Tel Aviv spyware company called Paragon.
The Citizen Lab first uncovered Paragon’s operation when a tip led them to a domain name registered to the company, which in turn led to a server that the Citizen Lab says it believes Paragon uses to communicate with clients. Researchers then tracked that server to small town Ontario, to an address which matches only a warehouse, a strip mall, a brewery, an apartment — and the headquarters of the Ontario Provincial Police.
Kate Robertson, a co-author of the report and a senior research associate at the Citizen Lab, says the link certainly suggests that the OPP is a possible Paragon customer. “No other addresses connected to the IP were associated with law enforcement or agencies that would require cyber or forensic capabilities,” she told the Star.
Your "ally" and those who claim they "share your values".
Don't believe it. Not for a minute.
Justin Ling: Ontario police have been linked to a spyware company that makes it easy to hack into phones. They owe us some explanations
Spyware made by the company Paragon has been implicated in the surveillance of activists and journalists.
www.thestar.com
Canadian cops are quietly deploying phone-hacking spyware to conduct investigations, and they may be buying it from a U.S-Israeli firm accused of spying on journalists and activists.
These details are revealed in a new investigation conducted by The Citizen Lab, a group of digital sleuths and civil liberties advocates at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. Citizen Lab provided an advanced copy to the Star.
Their findings should have us incensed. Not only are Canadian police aggressively deploying this software — which exploits vulnerabilities in technology that we all use — without informing the public, but worse yet they are sourcing this technology from a firm which, the Citizen Lab alleges, is helping spy on journalists and dissidents.
Over a months-long investigation, the Citizen Lab uncovered evidence which suggests the Ontario Provincial Police dealt with a Tel Aviv spyware company called Paragon.
The Citizen Lab first uncovered Paragon’s operation when a tip led them to a domain name registered to the company, which in turn led to a server that the Citizen Lab says it believes Paragon uses to communicate with clients. Researchers then tracked that server to small town Ontario, to an address which matches only a warehouse, a strip mall, a brewery, an apartment — and the headquarters of the Ontario Provincial Police.
Kate Robertson, a co-author of the report and a senior research associate at the Citizen Lab, says the link certainly suggests that the OPP is a possible Paragon customer. “No other addresses connected to the IP were associated with law enforcement or agencies that would require cyber or forensic capabilities,” she told the Star.
