Amnesty International, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and other groups are throwing their weight behind a new open-source software malware detection project called Detekt.
Unlike the more all-purpose antivirus and anti-malware programs, Detekt centers around detecting and warning end users of surveillance malware of the sort known to be used by government.
The revelations of NSA surveillance last year by Edward Snowden has brought new attention to the problem of government surveillance, and nations across the planet are using malware utilities to spy on civilians.
The Detekt program was developed by Claudio Guarnieri, who has previously developed other programs related to the analysis of malware. Detekt is designed only for Windows-based computers, which of course are the most commonly used and subsequently most commonly targeted.
Detekt is available at resistsurveillance.org, and the source is available at github. The program’s authors warn it may not detect the newest revisions of government surveillance malware, but that it may help weed out some of the most common.
Great news
Detekt does not work on computers running the 64-bit version of Windows 8.1. Apparently, they are working on correcting this problem.
Any bets on how long before the warmonger statists in Congress, with the full support of the surveillance organizations of course, attempt to craft legislation to outlaw this obvious attempt to keep an eye on the public without their knowledge – or consent?
invention is the mother of EVOlution, living variety you could say!
Only if the best brains are on our side shall we win. For all the hardware on the Internet is ownership controlled by the corporate rich, it is used as a tool primarily to confuse and enslave the working class and most of the companies that sell anti-virus software, they do so love to put bugs in your computer.