UAE surveillance contractor is recruiting an army of foreign hackers to break into its citizens' devices
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1Z5KX)
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")