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The Hacking Team: Providing Governments with Complete Control over Computers and Smartphones
TLDR The Hacking Team, an Italian company, offers software that allows governments to gain complete control over computers and smartphones, and they have used deceptive tactics to stay out of trouble. The recent hack of the Hacking Team appears to be motivated by a desire to expose their evasiveness and lies rather than for financial gain.
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The Hacking Team, an Italian company, offers software called Remote Control Systems that allows governments to gain complete control over computers and smartphones, including stealing files and recording audio.
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The Hacking Team works with countries around the world, including those with poor human rights records, to provide software that allows governments to gain control over computers and smartphones, and they have used deceptive tactics to stay out of trouble.
06:47
The Hacking Team buys zero-day vulnerabilities and uses them to gain access to their target's computers, and these vulnerabilities can be sold for anywhere from $5,000 to over a million dollars, but the recent hack of the Hacking Team appears to be motivated by a desire to expose their evasiveness and lies rather than for financial gain.
10:03
The hacking team is unable to disclose their clients or publicly sever ties with bad regimes, which has led to frustration and skepticism about their ethical practices.
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Even if the hacking team goes under, there will be other companies eager to take their place and provide this kind of technology to governments around the world.
16:41
Minions have become incredibly popular and their faces are now being used as a stand-in for all kinds of emotions in nonsensical memes on social media.
19:51
Minions have become such a massive cultural phenomenon that people are now sexualizing them in inappropriate jokes on the internet.
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