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Can an ‘ethical’ spyware maker justify providing its tech to ICE?

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Paragon, an Israeli spyware company that claims to operate as an “ethical” surveillance vendor, faced scrutiny when earlier this year Italy was caught using Paragon’s tools to spy on the phones of two journalists. Paragon responded by cutting Italy off from its surveillance products, becoming the first spyware company to ever publicly name one of […]

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Trump administration fires members of cybersecurity review board in “horribly shortsighted” decision

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On Tuesday, a day after Donald Trump’s inauguration as the new U.S. president, the Department of Homeland Security told members of several advisory committees that they were effectively fired.  Among the committees impacted is the Cyber Security Review Board, or CSRB, according to sources familiar with the board who spoke to TechCrunch, as well as

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