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bobcostas55 on July 6, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dump...

It's software sold to law enforcement/intelligence agencies, and it is designed explicitly to plant false evidence. Even post-Snowden I think that qualifies as interesting.

MichaelGG on July 6, 2015 [–]

Can you elaborate on "design explicitly to plant false evidence"? I don't know what the program does, but those path names are zero evidence, come on.

yAnonymous on July 7, 2015 | [–]

The file explicitly said "evidence" in the first line. It's deleted now.

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