Governments change, and so does their online presence. Their cell phone will tell you what they won’t.”Ĭaption: A screenshot of a FlexiSpy survey previously available on the Wayback Machine.
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In another example, a Wayback Machine archive of FlexiSpy’s homepage showed one of the company’s catchphrases: “Many spouses cheat. That particular graphic was mentioned in a recent New York Times piece on the consumer spyware market. Previously, pages from FlexiSpy’s website saved to the Wayback Machine showed a customer survey, with over 50 percent of respondents saying they were interested in a spy phone product because they believe their partner may be cheating. The spyware can intercept phone calls, remotely turn on a device’s microphone and camera, steal emails and social media messages, as well as track a target’s GPS location. The company in question is FlexiSpy, a Thailand-based firm which offers desktop and mobile malware.
“Journalists and human rights defenders often rely on archiving services such as the Wayback Machine as tools to preserve evidence that might be key to demand accountability,” Claudio Guarnieri, a technologist at human rights charity Amnesty International, told Motherboard in an online chat.
The news highlights the broader issue of the fragility of online archives, including those preserving information in the public interest. But the Internet Archive has been purging its banks of content related to a company which marketed powerful malware for abusive partners to spy on their spouses.
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