Leaked Documents Show FBI, DEA and U.S. Army Buying Italian Spyware

[crimethink]

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/06/hacking-team-spyware-fbi/

[mick silver]

The FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Army have all bought controversial software that allows users to take remote control of suspects’ computers, recording their calls, emails, keystrokes and even activating their cameras, according to internal documents hacked from the software’s Italian manufacturer.
The company, Hacking Team, has also been aggressively marketing the software to other U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies, demonstrating their products to district attorneys in New York, San Bernardino, California (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2157732-san-bernardino.html), and Maricopa, Arizona (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2157726-maricopa-county-attorneys-office.html); and multi-agency task forces like the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2157727-meeting-with-metropolitan-bureau-of.html) in Florida and California’s Regional Enforcement Allied Computer Team (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2157737-san-bernadino-react.html). (We do not use this product nor are we currently considering a proposal from the vendor/manufacturer to purchase it,” Jerry Cobb, a spokesperson for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Officesaid.)