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Amal Clooney and her fellow human rights lawyer Jared Genser have accused the Maldives’ government of brazenly bugging them during a supposedly confidential jailhouse meeting with the country’s deposed former president. The lawyers had just left Mohamed Nasheed’s island prison when they received a phone call from his wife revealing that senior Maldivian officials were already fully aware of a …
Manchester United are checking for bugs to prevent spying on team talks Old Trafford officials do not want Louis van Gaal’s talks to leak out Policy has been in place since a recorder was found under David Moyes Manchester United have been sweeping their team hotel for bugs in a bid to stop Louis van Gaal’s team talks being listened …
The ‘Faustian Pact’ metaphor as explanation for the South African liberation movement’s 1990s capitulation to neoliberal capitalism is offered by Ronnie Kasrils. As Africa’s most revered white revolutionary, Kasrils served the new democracy as its Minister of National Intelligence from 2004-08, after a decade as water minister and deputy defence minister, following three decades in the armed struggle against apartheid. …
CYBER-CAFÉS were once a favoured tool of Western intelligence and security agencies. They were inconspicuous, cheap to establish and highly effective. Set up near an international summit buzzing with targets, or close to a mosque favoured by Islamist extremists, these facilities allowed their masters to monitor browsing habits, obtain targets’ logins and passwords, and plant spyware for future use. This …
Famous hotel was bought by Anbang Insurance Group for $1.95bn Presidents including Hoover and Eisenhower enjoyed long stays there Obama reportedly staying at Millennium’s ONE UN instead President Obama will not stay at the Waldorf Astoria tonight amid fears the place could be bugged after it was sold to a Chinese company. The Department of State had traditionally housed US officials …
Hasan Palaz, the former vice president of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) who is allegedly affiliated with the Gülen Movement, has been detained after an arrest warrant was issued for him on Monday as part of the investigation into wiretapping the office of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during his tenure as prime minister. Palaz is among …
Norwegian Parliament in Oslo. (AFP Photo/NTB Scanpix/Terje Bendiksby) A network of fake base mobile stations that can snoop on leading politicians’ mobile phones, as well as ordinary people, has been discovered in central Oslo, some outside Norway’s parliament and the prime minister’s residence, according to a report. Investigative journalists from the Aftenposten newspaper have detected a number of places in …
Industrial Espionage: A Prologue Imagine you’re the CEO of a midsize company. Your goal is to outmaneuver the competition and snag a significant share of the market. Your firm might achieve this by delivering a useful product or service that consumers feel is worth the price. You’re not the only company doing this, so you might also opt for savvy positioning, …
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a California chemical engineer to 15 years in prison and fined him $28 million after his rare economic-espionage conviction for selling China the technology that creates a white pigment. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in Oakland said Walter Liew had “turned against his adopted country over greed.” A jury previously convicted the 56-year-old Liew …
Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño revealed at a news conference in Quito that a hidden spy microphone had been uncovered in the office of the Ecuadorian ambassador to London, Ana Alban. Denouncing the find as yet more evidence of the loss of ethics in government relations on an international level, he told the press conference, “We regret to inform that …