The Secret Agent “committed suicide” with a ticket to the side is a classic espionage so obvious that in a novel now would sound obvious. Yellow Italian Hacking Team, however, is reality, a reality full of dark sides. The last is the mysterious death of a man of Nis, the secret service of South Korea. As he knows the name, Lim, and qualifying expert cyber security. That’s just the matter of which deals with the Milan-based company at the center of a true international intrigue, though not lacking in details “Italian”, as relations with the institutions in the name of a certain approximation.
The Nis would be one of many foreign intelligence agencies that bought the Remote Control System, which is the Italian company’s software can be installed invisibly on PCs and smart phones and spy on all activities, from email to messaging and even activate the microphone and camera remotely.
To understand why the death of Lim is creating havoc from Seoul to Rome, you have to read the harsh reactions of the political opposition parties Koreans after the 400 Gig of data Hacking System ended up on Wikileaks, including email with which the company headed by David Vincenzetti bargained with an intermediary, the Nanatech, the sale of the spy software to a mysterious “5163 Army Division.” According to the Korean Times, it is a cover name used by 007 in Seoul when operating abroad. The software would be purchased for $ 760,000 in 2012, the very year in which there were the South Korean elections, in order to intercept the communications of “Kakao Talk”, the style Whatsapp messaging system used by 35 million people in the country Asia. In the face of political protests, services Koreans have leaked that they had used the “trojan” only to spy on enemies of North Korea, and not their fellow citizens. The same version that Lim would have written on three sheets found in the car along with his dead body and burnt material. A suicide, according to the authorities, but leaves room for many doubts, as well as the move of Lim to delete data of transactions with the Italian software. A reconstruction that does not convince the opposition Korean. And even those Italian.
Because the development is just the latest Korean mystery of this story. That the United spying upsets only hypocrites. An Italian company that sells software to half the world, including technologically advanced countries such as Korea, might even be proud. But it is unclear how the state to control a company that is so private, but is owned by Finlombarda (financial Lombardy Region) and is accused of having sold the software to schemes with democracy have little to do, such as Ethiopia and Sudan.
Just ties with Khartoum have triggered the interest of the UN, which referred to the sanctions the government of Omar al-Bashir. According to emails published on Wikileaks, just after pressing the UN, which began in December 2014, the Ministry of Economic Development to apply Hacking Team solitamentedestinati limits on exports to those who produce material that can have a dual use, civil and military. But the company is already active in the field in 2003 and in 2004 sold the software to the Italian postal police. Moreover, by email published on Wikileaks, it is understood that after the intervention of Mise Milanese society is given a great deal to do to look up contacts in the Italian bureaucracy. Goal, solve the hitch that threatened to limit their export activity accounts for 80% of its sales.
Is it possible that a task so delicate, and funded with public funds, it was due to ten years without appropriate supervision of the State? Various members of Forza Italy, from Malan, to the Romans, to Santanché, ask the commission control of the secret services and the government, in particular the sottosegreetario Marco Minniti, to report in Parliament. The risk is that in the end, still a matter of strategic interest is resolved prosecutor. Prosecutors in Milan have already investigated six former employees of infidels Hacking Team and listened to the leaders of the company.
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