Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Hacking Team leak underscores complexity of regulating software

Author(s): 
Geoffrey King
Publication Date: 
July 13, 2015
Publication Type: 
Other Writing

Among the 400 gigabytes of internal documents belonging to surveillance firm Hacking Team that were released online this week are details of the company's dealings with some of the most oppressive governments in the world. The revelations, which have generated alarm among privacy, security, and human rights advocates, have also fueled debate around the esoteric but important topic of government controls on the export of powerful software that can secretly infiltrate and seize control of targeted computers.



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This article by Geoffrey King originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on July 13, 2015 at 10:00AM

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