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Detekt Version 2.0 is Out (Jul 28, 2015)

posted by janrinok on Monday August 03 2015, @01:10AM   Printer-friendly
from the caveat-emptor dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Hairyfeet on Monday August 03 2015, @02:44AM

    by Hairyfeet (75) <bassbeast1968NO@SPAMgmail.com> on Monday August 03 2015, @02:44AM (#217198) Journal

    LOL Shellshock and Heartbleed don't ring any bells? News Flash Linux has just as many bugs as any other OS in fact last year Linux and OSX had more vulnerabilities than Windows [betanews.com] by a pretty decent margin, you simply do not hear of them because the MSM really doesn't see an OS with a 1% userbase as newsworthy. Sorry but that is just how it is, just look at how many stories we've had on Windows 10 compared to the latest release of ubuntu.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @02:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @02:53AM (#217200)

    Fight the fight Hairy. Every time you make that vulnerability argument and provide that link, you get your ass handed to you showing you how unbelievably misleading those stats are (for those too lazy to look up one of his older "arguments", suffice it to say that to do an apples-to-apples comparison using his numbers, all the non-Windows numbers are double, triple, quadruple-counted; to do it fair, you'd have to sum up the total Windows vulnerabilities by counting them all for Win7 Basic, Win7 Home, Win7 Pro, Win7 Ultimate, etc.).

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @02:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @02:53AM (#217201)

    ^Must be a MS employee.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @09:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @09:28AM (#217308)

    What an absolutely ridiculous claim to make. How can you compare three numbers when two of them are corporate secrets? Also, Linux is a kernel, not an operating system...