Huffington Post - A new, free tool called Detekt can scan your computer to find government spyware. Announced on Thursday, Detekt was created by security researcher Claudio Guarnieri in conjunction with Amnesty International; the Electronic Frontier Foundation; Digitale Gesellschaft,
a German association dedicated to protecting people from Internet
surveillance; and Privacy International, a charity that investigates
government surveillance.
"What we really want to do is open up this whole discussion about this
kind of malware and the companies who sell it and the governments who
use it," Eva Galperin, global policy analyst for the EFF, told The
Huffington Post in a phone call on Thursday. Galperin did a significant
chunk of the research on surveillance that the software is meant to
detect.
Detekt is not for the average Internet user, but rather it's
"specifically about the threat that governments pose to activists and
journalists, often in authoritarian regimes," Galperin said. These
people can face significant risks if their web activities or files fall
into the wrong hands.
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