{"id":95296,"date":"2025-07-02T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=97c4498bca47b0092f18d2b5bf7577da"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:21:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:21:00","slug":"surveillance-used-by-a-drug-cartel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=95296","title":{"rendered":"Surveillance Used by a Drug Cartel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2025\/07\/surveillance-used-by-a-drug-cartel.html\">Schneier on Security<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: For the slow folks in the back, I'll repeat the opening \"Once you build a surveillance system, you can\u2019t control who will use it.\"<\/div><p>Once you build a surveillance system, you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/27\/sinaloa-cartel-fbi-hackers\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">can&rsquo;t control<\/a> who will use it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official&rsquo;s phone records and use Mexico City&rsquo;s surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency&rsquo;s informants in 2018, according to a new US justice department report.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was disclosed in a justice department inspector general&rsquo;s audit of the FBI&rsquo;s efforts to mitigate the effects of &ldquo;ubiquitous technical surveillance,&rdquo; a term used to describe the global proliferation of cameras and the thriving trade in vast stores of communications, travel, and location data.<\/p>\n<p>[&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p>The report said the hacker identified an FBI assistant legal attach&eacute; at the US embassy in Mexico City and was able to use the attach&eacute;&rsquo;s phone number &ldquo;to obtain calls made and received, as well as geolocation data.&rdquo; The report said the hacker also &ldquo;used Mexico City&rsquo;s camera system to follow the [FBI official] through the city and identify people the [official] met with.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oig.justice.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/reports\/25-065_t.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FBI report.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once you build a surveillance system, you can\u2019t control who will use it:<br \/>\nA hacker working &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=95296\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}