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    Hacking Team is back

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    Violet Blue
    Violet Blue
    07.07.2017

    When you call yourself "Hacking Team," you're borrowing a legacy of persecution and suffering at the hands of legal authorities. The same kind that drove Aaron Swartz to become the most famous hacker suicide of our era. You're effectively wrapping yourself in a mantle bled into by the skins of coders and crackers who are considered criminals by wider society -- regardless of innocence. You've grafted your brandished title -- "Hacking Team" -- onto the backs of those living under the oppressive fear of being rounded up, stripped of rights, and imprisoned for vague, state-defined crimes.