Article 1Z5KX UAE surveillance contractor is recruiting an army of foreign hackers to break into its citizens' devices

UAE surveillance contractor is recruiting an army of foreign hackers to break into its citizens' devices

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The world's most sophisticated security experts have been bombarded with recruiting offers from UAE-based company Darkmatter, which bills itself as a major state security contractor -- but people who've taken the bait say they were then told that they were being hired to weaponize huge arsenals of zero-day vulnerabilities so that the UAE can subject its own population to fine-grained, continuous surveillance. (more")

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