Researchers from the University of Toronto’s amazing Citizen Lab ( previously ) have published a new report detailing the latest tactics from the autocratic government of Ethiopia, ” the world’s first turnkey surveillance state ” whose human rights abuses have been entirely enabled with software and expertise purchased on the open market, largely from companies in western countries like Finfisher and Hacking Team. (more…)

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Israeli firm Cyberbit illegally spied on behalf of Ethiopia’s despots, then stored all their stolen data on an unencrypted, world-readable website