#Police Linked to #Hacking Campaign to Frame Indian Activists

source: https://www.wired.com/story/modified-elephant-planted-evidence-hacking-police/

Police forces around the world have increasingly used hacking tools to identify and track protesters, expose political dissidents’ secrets, and turn activists’ computers and phones into inescapable eavesdropping bugs. Now, new clues in a case in India connect law enforcement to a hacking campaign that used those tools to go an appalling step further: planting false incriminating files on targets’ computers that the same police then used as grounds to arrest and #jail them.

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