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Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death

posted by martyb on Monday January 28 2019, @11:58AM   
from the Spy-vs.-Spy dept.

chair writes:

Undercover agents target cybersecurity watchdog Citizen Lab, which reported key details in Khashoggi case

The researchers who reported that Israeli software was used to spy on Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi's inner circle before his gruesome death are being targeted in turn by international undercover operatives, The Associated Press has found.

Twice in the past two months, men masquerading as socially conscious investors have lured members of the Citizen Lab internet watchdog group to meetings at luxury hotels to quiz them for hours about their work exposing Israeli surveillance and the details of their personal lives.

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• Re:You go to bed with a dog. You wake up with V. D Re:You go to bed with a dog. You wake up with V. D (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @02:43PM (5 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @02:43PM (#793008)

  It must be noted that this Citizen Lab has an agenda of their own. They are trying to shape public opinion, in favor of "refugees", among other things. Maybe they need to be researched?

  Citizen Lab's Ronald Deibert is part of the OpenNet Initiative with John Palfrey and Jonathan Zittrain of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, the center of the Department of Homeland Security's anti-"hate speech" initiative led by Shahed Amanullah, [8ch.net] webmaster of the Muslim Public Affairs Council's magazine Minaret which featured Ayatollah Khomeini and Osama bin Laden on its cover. [8ch.net] Diebert and Citizen Lab's Erik Zouave appeared at Rightscon Silicon Valley which had a heavy attendance of British, Iranian, and Rothschild recruiters.

  Citizen Lab's John Scott-Railton appeared at the Google Ideas conference Conflict in a Connected World [archive.org] with Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen, Gabriella Coleman, Christopher Poole, and others implicated in the global Internet censorship project [8ch.net], along with Abdulla Darrat of Libyan revolutionary group feb17voices, Lisa Goldman of Israeli Islamist website +972, Peter Warren Singer of Qatar's Doha Conference who called for supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in 2002 [archive.org], and Lucas Dixon who wrote the Syria Defection Tracker for Qatar's Al Jazeera.

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• Re:You go to bed with a dog. You wake up with V. D Re:You go to bed with a dog. You wake up with V. D (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @03:37PM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @03:37PM (#793031)

  So, which do you guys hate more: jews or muslims?

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  • Re:You go to bed with a dog. You wake up with V. D Re:You go to bed with a dog. You wake up with V. D (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @04:24PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @04:24PM (#793065)

    C) Racist little shits.

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    • Re:You go to bed with a dog. You wake up with V. D (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @05:48PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @05:48PM (#793116)

      Click those links, browse around a bit, and tell me whether 8chan hates racist little shits.

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  • Open Source Advocates (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday January 28 2019, @05:47PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Monday January 28 2019, @05:47PM (#793114) Homepage Journal

    Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software [soylentnews.org]

    To Wit:

    “Free” and “open” are rivals for mindshare. “Free software” and “open source” are different ideas but, in most people's way of looking at software, they compete for the same conceptual slot. When people become habituated to saying and thinking “open source,” that is an obstacle to their grasping the free software movement's philosophy and thinking about it. If they have already come to associate us and our software with the word “open,” we may need to shock them intellectually before they recognize that we stand for something else. Any activity that promotes the word “open” tends to extend the curtain that hides the ideas of the free software movement.

    It’s not the choice of license that determines whether a codebase is Open Source or Free Software. Rather, it’s the reason for which that license was chosen.

    --
    Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]

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• Re:You go to bed with a dog. You wake up with V. D (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday January 28 2019, @06:24PM

  by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday January 28 2019, @06:24PM (#793147) Journal

  Kevin Bacon.

  The End.

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