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Hacking Team Loses Export License, Banned from Selling Its Software Outside EU


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Hacking Team will need approval for each sale outside Europe

 
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Apr 6, 2016 15:47 GMT  ·  By Catalin Cimpanu Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano reports that Italy's General Directorate for International Trade Policy has revoked the Hacking Team's export license, which prohibits the company from selling its surveillance software to countries outside the EU space.
 
The Hacking Team went through hard times last year, when its server was hacked and the data dumped online, including troves of sensitive information, such as email conversations, internal software, logs, exploits, and the source code of their prime surveillance toolkit called RCS, or the Remote Control System.
 
Despite this reputational-crippling incident, the company continued to sell its product, after making quick updates to the Galileo RCS platform during this past fall.
 
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Very interesting article Jasper. That's a lot of countries to have to get approvals for. I bet it does have something to do with the killing of this Itailan reporter. Don't you think? 

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Very interesting article Jasper. That's a lot of countries to have to get approvals for. I bet it does have something to do with the killing of this Itailan reporter. Don't you think? 
Well that is possible Sherry but I don't know if it can ever be proven.

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Never actually heard of them before...so a very interesting article indeed...thanks for posting, Jasper. ;)

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You may find this interesting ?
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Will certainly try to fidn the time to have a look, Jasper...thanks!

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