Wikileaks

The temporary cessation of activity has not lasted long. Barely a month after the last press conference in London, Wikileaks began publishing on its website yesterday the Spyfiles, a documentation package of 160 companies dedicated to specializing in technology and mass espionage, according to its founder, Julian Assange, sell their products to the intelligence services of all the world. The

Australian computer specialist ensures that the computers have been used to control the movements of the population, especially dissidents. As in all previous cases in which the organization has leaked information, some will think that it is discovering the fire. But that only makes ethical espionage that industry that moves billions of dollars a year.

The site claims that the firms sell their technology to dictatorships.

Among this group of companies, working in 25 countries, a Spanish: Agnitio, devoted to "the manipulation and interception of mobile phones", according to Wikileaks. In the Registry figure the company started its activities in 2004 based in the Gran Via of Madrid, its president Emilio Martinez called and in 2009 had a net turnover of 308,125 euros. In November of that year, he opened a subsidiary called Agnitio Corporation in Washington DC and in 2010 increased its turnover to 2.3 billion euros.

One of the most prominent companies on the list is Amesys French, between 2006 and 2009 sold the regime of Muammar Gaddafi your system Eagle. According to the publication Owni reported yesterday, one of the means it has had access to the complete database of Wikileaks, although defined as a product to locate terrorists and dangerous criminals, could have served to spy on emails from members of the opposition in London, one of them, Mahmoud al Nakua, is now part of the National Transitional Council.

Wikileaks accused companies like Phoenexia of working in the Czech Republic with the Army to develop tools able to recognize individuals by their voice and used to classify individuals by gender, age and stress levels. The American and German Blue Coat ipoque, according to the organization, are selling their products to China and Iran to neutralize the dissident group communications on the Internet.

For Assange, who attended the presentation ceremony at the City University of London, the concern is that such technologies serve to track the movements of the entire planet, "Today, anyone with a Blackberry, iPhone or Gmail account is sold out.