UAE Blackberry update was spyware
A software update promoted by United Arab Emirates telecoms firm Etisalat appears to have been surveillance software. Full Story »
Posted by Glenn LaBauve - via Rebecca McKinnon, Google News (Sci/Tech), BBC NewsReview
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Some goverments or their agencies have histories of field testing in forgien markets or on forgien soil so as not to raise the ire of its own citizens. Not saying that happened here, but...