French spy used darknet to sell access to national mass-surveillance databases

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/10/08/surveillance-criminalism.html

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French spy used darknet to sell access to national mass-surveillance databases

France has 257 different kinds of cheeses, start there and get back to me.

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Who needs hackers when the caretakers happily sell out your data.

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Now that this has utterly failed to protect individuals’ privacy in France, every other country will just blindly continue to implement something similar. I can’t wait for the news articles about Australia’s My Health Record abuse.

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How is every “dark net” site not a government sting operation by now?

And occasional cutout until it’s rolled up.

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So apparantly they don’t have anyone looking at darknet sites to see what kind of things the criminal underworld is up to? Not much of a police agency then.

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Because that would require a degree competence their PD clearly does not have.

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