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Selling Your Secrets: The Invisible World of Software Backdoors and Bounty Hunters

https://www.corpwatch.org/article/selling-your-secrets-invisible-world-software-backdoors-and-bounty-hunters

Mass surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency involves close partnerships with high-tech companies in order to gather data on everyday people. The agency has cut deals to install secret backdoors into computers; exploit flaws in popular software; and surreptitiously analyze personal data from smartphone games.

Turning the Table on the Trackers: Wikileaks Sniffs out Spy Salesmen

https://www.corpwatch.org/article/turning-table-trackers-wikileaks-sniffs-out-spy-salesmen

What was Mostapha Maanna of Hacking Team, an Italian surveillance company, doing on his three trips to Saudi Arabia in the last year? A new data trove from WikiLeaks reveals travel details for salesmen like Maanna who hawk electronic technology to track communications by individuals without their knowledge

Investigation Needed into Bechtel's Failed Water Services

https://www.corpwatch.org/article/investigation-needed-bechtels-failed-water-services

Bechtel Group Inc., one of the lead contractors in the reconstruction of Iraq, has failed its contractual mandate to develop essential water delivery and sewage disposal, according to information Public Citizen forwarded today to the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).Without Basic Water Services