Hacking Team hacked, chaos in Prosecutor: “Lock the investigation more … – The Day

Milan, July 11, 2015 – The gap is a chasm. Investigations violated? Early to say, , but no one can be excluded. Indagin i slowed down or blocked, yes . Investigations in sleep. And this is a fact, a logical and elementary that the Milan prosecutor’s office can not deny. It does not deny. Galileo is put on standby, so it’s just gagged, and all those investigations providing interceptions , and needing fine pursuits Remote investigated and suspects – investigating terrorism, organized crime, corruption and of crimes against the public administration, but also of pedophilia, rape, murder – stopped . At stake.

Tens, and only in Milan. Because the software remote control system that the company Hacking Team provided to major companies interceptions which, in turn, provide such services to the Prosecutor, it is more of a patient infected with Ebola. Lethal consequences of the chain letter of outsourcing of investigative information, is no longer made in-house by police, police and financial police, but commissioned from outside companies. How many companies. The Milan prosecutors had direct contacts with Hacking Team, apart from the residual traces of a parcel of 13,000 euro in 2011, but with the most important company of interceptions in support of investigations, that the Milanese HT bought the software, The refined Galileo spying without being spied on.

Until July 6 tragic Hacking Team , when a mass of 400 gigabytes has been downloaded on Twitte r (and then do follow on WikiLeaks another million emails exchanged between company employees and names, names galore). And if that scenario, as likely, it can be applied to other offices investigators, police forces used the fascinating technology called from intelligence sources “very advanced”, but not sold in accordance with the dual use even rogue governments and dictatorships to target political dissent, the multiplier effect of the damage on a lawful inquiry and in accordance with law is scary.

Now the Prosecution moves on a double track. L ‘investigation on when, how and who could hack Hacking Team, and that the damage to the secrecy of investigations, who meanwhile are sleeping and hibernating at least with regard to the pursuit of the targets. “What investigations were damaged know, and are clear reasons why the point is absolute secrecy” , said the deputy prosecutor of the department and terrorism crimes, Maurizio Romanelli, who, with substitute Alessandro Gobbis and the leader of the police post Salvatore La Barbera, seeking overt traces of unauthorized access to the computer system, against persons unknown spaccamattoni. And who yesterday reached an initial report, summary of heartbroken men Hacking Team.

As the chief prosecutor, Edmondo Bruti Liberati, responds that “ if all investigations there is an obligation to confidentiality, this confidentiality must be multiplied to the cube . ” Albeit with the paradox, around the corner, to read, in a trickle-paced, exclusive tidbits on WikiLeaks. But the count of the damage is a sum that will have to come from many senders, many institutions, although again yesterday by AISE, the intelligence services, were sent reassuring signals “are not in any way compromise the research objectives or strategic data of ‘ aise, which can not in any way access Milanese society Hacking Team. ” But who accessed Galileo, if used by AISE: Remote control system that now has a life of its own.