Your Phone Can and Will Be Used Against You

Cellebrite deflects questions about whether it would sell its phone-breaching tools to a repressive regime. View this email in your browser December 4-10, 2016 Share Tweet Forward Editor's Picks Your Phone Can and Will Be Used Against You Phone-cracking company Cellebrite does not like to talk about its clients; it would prefer people think its hacking software is used to rescue abducted kids or fight terrorism. But The Intercept's Sam Biddle hunted down one user: the repressive regime of Bahrain. As Biddle wrote in a story reported with help from a human rights group, Bahraini authorities tortured political activist Abdali al-Singace, then prosecuted him using evidence obtained via Cellebrite software. This revelation came barely a month after a Cellebrite executive told The Intercept, "We have a strong ethics backbone, a clear-use case for our capabilities, and dramatically less potential for abuse should 'evil customers' attempt to deceive us." Additional exclusive disclosures on The Intercept this week came from a batch of 262 articles from the NSA's internal news site, SIDtoday. One document revealed that the Reagan administration leaked classified signals intelligence to the Washington Post for political purposes. Others showed that the NSA had amassed 85 billion call records but lacked enough linguists and network analysts to effectively process the data it was interdicting. Ryan Tate Deputy Editor Phone-Cracking Cellebrite Software Used to Prosecute Tortured Dissident Sam Biddle, Fahad Desmukh Like any good, vaguely sinister corporate spy outfitter, the company deflects questions about whether it would sell its infamously powerful phone-breaching software to a repressive regime.   Reagan Administration "Cavalierly" Leaked NSA Signals Intelligence — Apparently Without Informing the Agency Jon Schwarz  An NSA analyst who wrote an intelligence report on Poland selling helicopters to Nicaragua recounts how the information was leaked by the Reagan administration.   Top Stories   A Clinton Fan Manufactured Fake News That MSNBC Personalities Spread to Discredit WikiLeaks Docs Glenn Greenwald Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.   Tourists Visit Plantation in Brazil and are Served by Black "Slaves" Cecilia Olliveira Slavery as a tourist attraction reveals how Brazil naturalizes its prejudices.   Disinformation, Not Fake News, Got Trump Elected, and It Is Not Stopping Robert Mackey The "PizzaGate" hoax should be described as what it is: a disinformation operation intended to boost Donald Trump by tarnishing Hillary Clinton.   Private Prisons Are Really Bad, but Good Enough for Immigrants, Concludes Homeland Security Report Alice Speri Despite some drama over a review of private prisons, Homeland Security is likely to keep using the facilities to house immigrants prior to deportation.   American and British Spy Agencies Targeted In-Flight Mobile Phone Use Jacques Follorou, Le Monde GCHQ and NSA have begun intercepting calls made using on-board cellular technology, according to Snowden documents reviewed by Le Monde in partnership with The Intercept.   Follow The Intercept

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