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A startup allegedly “hacked the world.” Then came the censorship—and now the backlash. (arstechnica.com)

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A startup allegedly “hacked the world.” Then came the censorship—and now the backlash.::Anti-censorship voices are working to highlight reports of one Indian company’s hacker past.

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 5 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Hacker-for-hire firms like NSO Group and Hacking Team have become notorious for enabling their customers to spy on vulnerable members of civil society.

But as far back as a decade ago in India, a startup called Appin Technology and its subsidiaries allegedly played a similar cyber-mercenary role while attracting far less attention.

Earlier this week, the digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sent a response—published here—pushing back against Appin Training Centers’ legal threats on behalf of media organizations caught in this crossfire, including the tech blog Techdirt and the investigative news nonprofit MuckRock.

“It's not a good state for a free press when one company can, around the world, disappear news articles,” Michael Morisy, the CEO and co-founder of MuckRock, tells WIRED.

The anti-secrecy nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) has also joined the effort to spark that Streisand Effect, “uncensoring” Reuters' story on the original Appin Technology as part of a new initiative it calls the Greenhouse Project.

The company’s legal complaint, filed in India’s judicial system, accused Reuters not only of defamation, but “mental harassment, stalking, sexual misconduct and trauma.”

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