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deadly weapon, a system able to reveal every detail of the life of the enemy. And ‘the cyberwar , modern war where the player who has the right information, at the right time. And Hacking Team had long understood, turning into a sort of private Nsa, able to provide computing platforms offensive to penetrate the private life of anyone. But who is the enemy? And ‘This is the key question that from 2013 have set themselves journalists and activists, after the first publication of the manual system RCS-Remote Control System – Wikileaks . If the software was used internally by Guardia di Finanza , the Ros Carabinieri , the Police Post and the security services for the interception, the true business now Milan did with countries outside the European Union. Sudan , Morocco , Kazakhstan , Lebanon , Egypt , Russian , Mexico , Chile , Swiss , USA . A list that grows while the analysis of 400 GB of information esfiltrate July 6 goes on. And the question about who the target takes on a different weight. The deadly weapon of Hacking Team – like a Kalashnikov any – takes on a different value if you bet against an opponent, a journalist or a human rights activist.
The letter of Mise . It’s called “dual use” dual use. A system can be good or bad, a weapon can be used to defend the population from attacks by gangs or rebels can be used to quell the violence rebellions against despotic governments. And ‘the principle governing the arms trade and is based on a key document, the Eus, the certificate “ end user “. Or the declaration of who the end user of the system. The legislation – European and Italian – is expected that this document is analyzed by Ministry of economic development to authorize the export system. Officials must consider whether the recipient country is included in the lists of embargo and if the end user has problems violation of human rights .
On 30 October 2014, the Italian Government realize that the spying software Hacking Team is within the products to be subject to authorization Ministerial. “This administration is in possession of items of information relating to export transactions by the Company in question, that might be associated with possible uses related to internal repression and the violation of human rights,” he writes in a letter to the Milan-based company the manager of the Mise Massimo Cipolletti . The consequence is clear: to continue to export systems Galileo-RCS Hacking Team must ask for regulatory approvals, as any factory of weapon systems.
David Vincenzetti , director of the Milan-based company, soon becomes clear that it does not pull a good air. Take the Offensive, writing to all customers – much weight – Italian: “We risk to close,” he said in an email sent to the police, to the upper reaches of the Interior Ministry, the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. Hacking Team knows that the path will not be easy and that the contracts have already been signed with many countries outside the EU are likely to jump. The mind goes immediately to the detailed and substantiated complaints came against espionage system made in Italy.
The case Morocco and espionage of journalists. Reporters sans frontier had already entered long Hacking Team in the list of “Internet enemies”, bringing – much before the release of the leak – a supposed offensive activities against Moroccan journalists, which was effected by using the RCS platform: “The software Hacking Team has been identified in the preparation of the computer news site Mamfakinch of Morocco (…). The malware was sent through a Word document that apparently contained confidential information, “he writes Associaizone international journalists. A second violation of human rights concerned the United Arab: “Morgan Marquis-Boire, computer expert, examined some attachments corrupt an email sent to the blogger Ahmed Mansoor, finding strong evidence that the content came from Trojan Hacking Team”. This latest research was published by Citizen Lab, an institute of the University of Toronto.
So the activities of the Milan group was well known for some time. Yet only at the end of October, the Mise intervenes. Triggering countermeasures.
The lobby of Hacking Team in Palazzo Chigi. After the arrival of the email from Mise the activity of lobbing of Hacking Team pointing to the primary objective of quickly close the first authorizations. The aid comes directly from Palazzo Chigi, as the daily was able to reconstruct based on internal emails of Hacking Team published by Wikileaks. Immediately after the release of the first authorization from the Ministry of Economic Development – the company arriving in Milan at the end of November 2014 – David Vincenzetti sends an email that reveals the company’s strategy: “By now we have so many parties involved and sensitized, absolutely heterogeneous to each other, we do not know exactly from where came the higher pressures at Mise. But one can swear: the Prime Minister’s Office “. The emails seem to confirm previous intervention Palazzo Chigi: “Gentlemen, major update – writes a manager of the company on 10 November in an email published by WikiLeaks – Giancarlo and I on the one hand, Teti and other Cipolletti, we had A conference call stressed by our best contacts with the Council Presidency Del. In summary: Teti sponsor our cause at the meeting of the Mise of 13 November. ” Cipolletti is the same leader of Mise who signed a letter of 30 October, while Thetis is most likely the name of the Director General of the same ministry.
At the end Hacking Team resolve the impasse and try to double. Since the early months of 2015 sets out to obtain a global license to export the system of espionage, claiming that the RCS system has nothing to do with weapons and war. “I like the sandwiches,” says a legal adviser in an email. Maybe a bit ‘indigestible for journalists and human rights activists, and very useful for dictators and governments definitely not peaceful.
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