r/conspiracy: Leaked Documents Expose the US Government's Cellphone Surveillance Options: Local law enforcement agencies are using equipment developed for military use in war zones as domestic surveillance devices.

Leaked Documents Expose the US Government's Cellphone Surveillance Options: Local law enforcement agencies are using equipment developed for military use in war zones as domestic surveillance devices.

39 2015-12-21 by axolotl_peyotl

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1 merryman1 2015-12-21

I'll have a look and see if I can find it on youtube but there was a great talk at a C³ conference by Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson where they laid out pretty concisely that the surveillance and net-control programs used by authoritarian states during the Arab Spring were actually just commercial programs developed for use in Offices and the like to stop workers accessing inappropriate material.