Free tool detects 'government surveillance spyware'
Free software that can detect the presence of surveillance spyware has been launched by a global coalition of human rights and tech organizations.
Organizations including Amnesty International, Privacy International, Digitale Gesellschaft and Electronic Frontier Foundation have teamed up to unveil the open source tool Detekt.
Detekt, they say, is the first publicly available tool that spots surveillance spyware that has been "increasingly" used by governments to read private emails and remotely turn on a computer’s camera or microphone to secretly record activities. The tool was developed by German security researcher Claudio Guarnier, who was part of the team that first identified that the commercially available FinFisher spyware sold to law enforcement and governments had been found running on computers all over the world.
