Amnesty Helps Launch Free Anti-spyware Tool for Activists
A security researcher has created a free, downloadable tool that journalists and activists can use to scan their computers and mobile devices for surveillance malware.
Photography credits – Darren Perry 2013.
Title: ‘Catch Me If You Can’ // Made with: Spray cans, Stencils // Parkland Walk, London, 2013
Title: ‘Catch Me If You Can’ // Made with: Spray cans, Stencils // Parkland Walk, London, 2013
Detekt was created by Claudio Guarnieri, an analyst who works at nonprofits The Honeynet Project and of The Shadowserver Foundation building open source tools to help make the internet a safer place. Knowing that human rights campaigners and journalists all over the globe are increasingly at risk of having their activities spied upon and hampered by intrusive governments, Amnesty International, Digitale Gesellschaft, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Privacy International have joined with Guarnieri to get this piece of software out to their networks. And it couldn’t come soon enough.New tool for spy victims to detect government surveillance
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Detekt is the first tool to be made available to the public that detects major known surveillance spyware, some of which is used
20 November 2014
A new tool to enable journalists and human rights defenders to scan their computers for known surveillance spyware has been released today by Amnesty International and a coalition of human rights and technology organizations.
Detekt is the first tool to be made available to the public that detects major known surveillance spyware, some of which is used by governments, in computers.
