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Evidence That Ethiopia Is Spying on Journalists Shows Commercial Spyware Is Out of Control

Published: Dec. 11, 2017, 7:59 a.m.

Throughout 2016 and 2017, individuals in Canada, United States, Germany, Norway, United Kingdom, and numerous other countries began to receive suspicious emails. It wasn\u2019t just common spam. These people were chosen. WIRED OPINION ABOUT Ronald Deibert (@rondeibert) is professor of political science and director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto\u2019s Munk School of Global Affairs. The emails were specifically designed to entice each individual to click a malicious link.