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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @04:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @04:21AM (#217232)

    Sounds just like Ubuntu to me.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @05:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @05:32AM (#217247)

    I quit Ubuntu when their desktop had a bar/dock appear/disappear on the left hand side of the screen and I heard about the deal with Amazon. Fuck that. (I also avoid any other distro which pulls/bases packages from Ubuntu's repos.

    I quit SUSE during the whole Novell/Microsoft love-in. Fuck that. (I also avoid openSUSE, once bitten...) (oh yeah and fuck mono and the useless moonlight plugin while we're at it)

    A minimal Debian install works for me.