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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   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday January 28 2019, @05:47PM

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

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

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    “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.

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