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Detekt is a free tool that scans your computer for traces of known surveillance spyware used by governments to target and monitor human rights defenders and journalists around the world. By alerting them to the fact that they are being spied on, they will have the opportunity to take precautions.
It was developed by security researchers and has been used to assist in Citizen Lab's investigations into government use of spyware against human rights defenders, journalists and activists as well as by security trainers to educate on the nature of targeted surveillance.
Amnesty International is partnering with Privacy International, Digitale Gesellschaft and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to release Detekt to the public for the first time."
The Windows version can be downloaded here; other than source code there doesn't seem to be a Linux or iOS specific version. More general information is here.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @02:16AM
"There's not much chance of your Linux computer being infected with this stuff. "
Actually, there is.
A company in the news recently (unrelated to Detekt) has released scanners and the source for Windows AND Linux. The story has made the rounds at various techie news places, even buck feta, but the news was met with a mutual distrust, as they had worked with a TLA in designing it and the masses had not heard of the company before and were not quick to trust it.
The really bad malware is cross platform.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @02:45AM
the company name might be Rook Security.
they released binaries for win/nix on their site, i believe, and to github.