High time for the US administration and Congress to reckon with the human rights abuses of the Ethiopian government, and how the sharing of national security technologies is enabling the regime. BY FELIX HORNE | JUST SECURITY Recent stories from Edward Snowden’s disclosures show how the US government’s involvement with Ethiopia presents a case study […]
Continue Reading
By ESAT News, EVEN though the Ethiopian government have long denied the allegation that it has been using Remote Control System (RCS) to spy on journalists and citizens, senior officials of Hacking Team have admitted on Monday that the company has indeed sold its hacking software to Ethiopia.
Continue Reading
By Fikrejesus Amahazion (PhD) LAST week, a large trove of emails was released showing how the Italian surveillance firm Hacking Team sold surveillance technology to governments around the world. The technology allows governments to infect smartphones and computers with malware to covertly record conversations and steal data. Amongst the numerous governments implicated was Ethiopia, with […]
Continue ReadingBy Thomas C Mountain, WHY is Glenn Greenwald protecting the CIA? Edward Snowden made him the primary custodian for the tens of thousands of secret files Snowden downloaded from the NSA database yet only a small fraction of the files have been made public in the past year. The reason? So Glenn Greenwald et.al can make […]
Continue ReadingAFP Four British citizens have been detained in Eritrea, the Foreign Office in London said Friday, amid reports that the men were former soldiers guarding a merchant ship from pirates. A statement said Britain was “deeply concerned” that authorities in the Horn of Africa nation had not allowed consular officials to speak to or visit […]
Continue ReadingUK Press Association (UKPA) The detention of four Britons in Eritrea has been “massively blown out of proportion”, a private security firm has said.
Continue Reading