Spy Merchants l Al Jazeera Investigations
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- Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit enters the secretive world of the surveillance industry. Spy Merchants reveals for the first time how highly-invasive spyware, which can capture the electronic communications of a town, can be purchased in a 'grey market’ where regulations are ignored or bypassed. Mass surveillance equipment can then be sold onto authoritarian governments, criminals or even terrorists.
During a four-month undercover operation, an industry insider working for Al Jazeera filmed the negotiation of several illegal, multi-million dollar deals that breach international sanctions. The proposed deals include the supply of highly restricted surveillance equipment to Iran. The undercover operative also secured an extraordinary agreement to purchase powerful spyware with a company who said they didn’t care who was the end-user.
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Haha they spied on the spy company 😂
Fantastic work Aljazeera. I can see why the Saudis want you closed down.
Aljazera owns by Qatar haha who will Win??
Hogwash! Al Jazeera is the voice of MI6 and the CIA. All of the super-rich gulf oil sheikdoms are close allies of Saudi Arabia and puppets of the NWO countries. Saudi Arabia loves Al Jazeera. But they may pretend otherwise.
@@texasray5237 I see sign of human intelligence right here, well done sir.
@@texasray5237 QATAR is not Puppet Like SAUD family,,, UAE,,, BAHRAIN,,, EGYPT..... QATAR is going going Through the Right direction.
Don't you know About Israeli Lobby
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It’s funny how half the world just want to live in peace while the other half wants to control others, but can’t control their selves 🤦🏾♂️!
Slavery, in it's varied forms, is becoming mainstream again. It's more profitable than government. Rogue doctors using patients as cash cows is a form of slavery.
@@sykes758 uts allmost a new form of godwin xD slavery.
But, with that doctors example, i am fearing you dont have the definition of slavery correct in the head. You will claim not, so were can i buy people to sell to doctors?
@@juliusraben3526 America
So why are you exposing this? Every government does it. THe manufacturer needs to sell their equipment and make money. If they don't sell others will sell so what's the point? Is it because it is going to South Sudan or Iran? Why don;t you stop the manufacturing of such equipment? Stop supporting this hypocrisy
Am you people put your lives on the line to make such documentaries and just imagining what would have happened if JAMES was caught during the investigation. But thanks
The big question with an IMSI device is why do phones connect to this machine, are they made to do it?
. It should be stopped from this point of view.
but every government wants a back door to spy on its people it would seem
manufacturing news to show Iran in bad light..How about export to USA? of course not because they have it and why is it wrong for Iran to have it? And for the Europeans countries that use it? and why its never abused because they are so morally upright as Turkey that they can't misuse..USA again with their NSA are allowed to use it!
Great questions!....shame nobody (other than wikileaks) will challenge the west
The IMSi Catcher... Is a more advanced system than what was used in WWII & Even in the tracking of Pablo Escobar in the 80s or 90s... The Germans used a van or sometimes multiple vans... where they would space out the vans to be a couple blocks apart... And then drive in a pattern... They would normally try to use 3 vans to do general sweeps... (I think, but I might be wrong on some of this info)... Where they would try to use triangulation to figure out a general area of where a German Enemy might be sending out messages via telegraphs, a long-distance message transmission system that uses visual or sound signals, such as Morse code. These vans usually had some sort of Antenna on top of their roof with someone riding in the back... listening for any signals... while also looking for any wires or antennas sticking out or near windows, on roof tops, on higher up spots such as church towers and other tall items such as trees, clothes lines, radio towers, etc... The technology of the time only allowed these vans to be able to track a signal of someone sending an active transmission. For instance if a person opened their brief case and ran the line & antenna out... but wasn't transmitting yet... such as in Morse Code... There wasn't any way to pick up where the person might be. But once the person started to tap a transmission... the message would send a signal through the device, into wire & out the antenna... into air-waves that the Signal Tracker Vans could be able to try to locate & track. The further away the vans with the signal trackers... the harder it was to intercept a signal. The Tracker system also worked on signal strength basis... So as they got closer to an out going and/or incoming transmission... the stronger the signal strength was detected. The signal wasn't strong enough to track an exact GPS location... and By using multiple vans... they could figure out where someone might be within a couple blocks at 1st... by narrowing down the signal strengths being picked up by 2 or more vans at a time... Eventually being able to narrow it down to the exact street... And then once on the right street... They could narrow it down to the exact house, building, or location the person transmissions are... based on how strong the signal is as they went down the street... and by moving the tracking antenna from one side of the vehicle to the other to narrow down the side of street... and because as they got closer the signal got stronger... and as they passed the place the signal began to decrease slowly... However this relied on... once again... Outgoing/Incoming Transmissions at the time of the tracker vans getting closer.
This is what they used to track Pablo Escobar Cell phone transmissions... as they were able to narrow down to an area he was in... then down to a street he was on... and then while he was still talking on the phone... the van/truck/suv passed right by the exact place Escobar was in... As they watched the signal increase & then decrease... And they were also listening to his call at the same time... And were able to see him in the window talking on the phone as they approached when they came back... Then as they went into the place... Escobar jumped out the window onto the roof of the building beside his bedroom window... and apparently was §h0t just as he jumped out the window or shortly after.
As for Escobar this might be closer to the 2nd Spy Device they discussed or even the 1st device or a combo of both... not 100% sure.
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Sad this is.Thanks Aljazeera,keep it up with the good work.
It's very funny how a TOP spy firm can be secretly recorded
Double and triple agents happen... Informants are very flip floppy and can be on your side one day and the next day they aren't.
Interesting presentation. But Thomas Drake wearing a trench coat is such an old cliche' - even to the point of being irritating.
From this day forward I will never sit down with anyone anywhere and talk illegal business without a proper search of that person's entire person. Literally
Haha... Indeed
Now we all agree with the mafia & drug lords paranoia.. In fact OSAMA trusted no one including journalists....
@@rabbithare381 Osama is a punk
@@religionisapoison2413 I know, he was one of the western countries punks whom they used & punked the entire world... Im glad you know...
@@rabbithare381 lmao we have a sympathizer on our hands
Takes balls to spy on a spy company don't they have any systems that can detect hidden cameras and stuff.
They sell trust
My thoughts exactly
Its excellent investigative journalism.
These guys are the best news out there they are catching corruption all over the world
Yes,they are best at it
Imperative, total system reset required! TOTAL REMOVAL OF THE ESTABLISHMENT THEY ARE ALL BOUGHT AND SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER! 😅🤣😂
This sends chills down my spine. I knew that this was going on but I had no idea as to the depths. If there was ever in doubt in my mind that our ever move is being watched and recorded this certainly took care of that doubt.
MC1R Gene .. So with you
Why is it only the likes of Al Jazeera bothers to do ACTUAL journalism anymore? There guys put the UK media to utter shame.
WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE TANK, THE TANK STAYS IN AFRICA!!! REALLY, REAAALLYY!!
Really good investigative journalism as always
I agree
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Al jazeera always top in undercover documentaries
Did anyone go to prison after this investigation? I doubt that
Forces always comes from USA,,Israel,, ISRAELI lobby...etc
Surveillance company not knowing they are surveyed 😄😁😆😅🤣😂🙃
excellent investigation, bravo AJ!
So these are dealers of spy technology, how didn't they realize you had spy cameras.
I know right? They did say he was well known in the industry so they trusted him.
And if the camera doesn't send a signal its not detected without a special camera that can see the spy cameras
Actually we know nothing behind the seen.
Man's Greed Knows No Bounds.This has and will be man's undoing and is inevitable.
This is no different than what FB,TH-cam and Google do without disregard
good work aljazera English investigation world has to do something about this guys we have seen
Rip out the microphone from your phone and put a black tape over camera.If possible use older models like Nokia 3310.Use only the wired microphone and earphones for communication
Having a cellphone is the equivalent of having the police watch you every move. You can't get rid of your phone though. Problem is how many foreign governments and others have access to you? And people say "well I have nothing to hide". But what happens when the government becomes blatantly tyrannical and they can hear and watch your every sound and move?
You learn to have nothing to hide in other words you self censor out of fear and learn it's easier to comply. Who's going to say the emperor wears no clothes.
The more i see. The more i hate.
World got worse !
I'm not sure this type of surveillance is not already being used in every country now. Seriously this helped my personal knowledge on how it works. It is and is not good at the same time
It's been in use for decades behind closed doors, the public wasn't suppose to find out about this kind of behavior.
It's got to be world wide in order to bring in the new world order!
The answer isn't trying to regulate who these products can and can't be sold to. The answer is to make these products illegal to produce, period. No government should spy on its people like this.
Absolutely
We have no information about this kind of bussiness in Colombia, they are all restrected. If it is possible, may you give me some information of offshore for example, Ecopetrol, Avianca, German Efromovich, Coffee. We know a lot in other countries, or political persons, who can not hide, like Juan Manuel Santos, but other companies information is 0.
Guys this propaganda it's so cheap for your level... Please try harder.
Made in israel
Unless I missed something, it seems to me that these companies are all willing to break the law because there's nothing being done about it when they do. If people involved in these illegal deals were routinely shot I'm sure there'd be less of them taking place.
My point is, laws that aren't enforced get broken, that's what's happening to a certain extent, isn't it?
It's supported by govt. And big corp!
I wonder about this alot as an entrepreneur in the social media industry. Is a simple agent with a smart phone nearby all it takes to block and mimick persons via social media? Can a bot do it as well? In this case people can be kept single, or their marrages destroyed, in a soft power incursion where they're messages are blocked or even both parties mimicked in order to set up dates and create relationships. That's just the basic stuff, how about concerning complex business relationships and into industrial sabotage?
I saw snowden and I clicked it
After four years, still it contains the value of the investigation by Al Jazeera.
Why don't psychopaths mind their own business
AL JAZEERA'S JOURNALISTS ARE HEROES ❤ ❤ ❤
Funny that Italian guy sells spy products while he was being spied on LOL
😂😂😂😂
Thank you "James" for being brave and actually caring. I love you!
Knock off the relentless "edgy" background music/noise. The audience can tolerate just hearing the human voice.
IMSI device probably CLONE the nearest cellular network and piggy back on the signal
The best documentary I've ever seen about spy techniques aside from the IT, software ones.
Daniel Hangan hey man can you forward me to those documentaries? I'm interested
The whole world is so corrupted and neither country cannot enter in EU, they speak you must have precious not corruptive court system to be accepted in EU and NATO but they are so corrupted we are like children compare to them. So precious evidence how the world is working especially the rich countries.
Thank you for the report on Ipac interference on British politics. Now please release your report on Ipac practices in US.🐸
Great work but the last statement Disturbing "when you sell a Tank yo Africa you don't have to worry about coming back"
Nothing that Facebook is not already doing yawn.
this bs that these people are all shocked is laughable. all the western countries have been using this tech forever and anyone willing to pay the price can get anything anywhere
l need that device how do l get one?
A tank or a 'black box'?
Driving on the wrong side of the road is what's scary about Hong Kong and all lands where the English have left their tracks.. Sure glad the US and Canada did not follow suit.
Amazing investigation ,continues to educate the public (univers)keep up
Give it to the politician 'sof Guyana parliament and it would be used for more free stuff and money from all over foreign land and nations population . Send it no?
how come This company become much better than bbc and cnn.
1-massive budget
2-hire honest journalists
3-report what matters
4-ask more questions
5-more focus on objective journalism
6-avoid silly news
+shizo shizo honest journalists? lol please stop with the Bullshit
Very dangerous, they can do anything without you knowing you're being tag as target ,for anything 😀😀😀😱😱
@46:- the guy hit the mark. It's the same move as school shootings v Gun control.
Gun control won't stop school shootings.
God guard james,cause I dont think he was sitting with those men masked.
ALJAZEERA is CIA department in middleeast
It’s ok, everything’ll be fine. Get well, get spied.
Same as in the US. LOL
Plz don’t invade the privacies!!!
Good investigation! The only criticism I could give is repeating yourself's many times over of what was stated already. That was annoying.
It sounds like a Hollywood movie
Who's up for a Kickstarter? We could buy an Imsy-catcher and listen in to Washington DC and Westminster
William Chamberlain I’m in!
WOW!!! This is so revealing and scary
Nice documatary but CEO of this issue is missing hope u know
Shut up
...and you want the Turkish in the EU?
It's always the money, without conscience , 😱😱😱😱
Funny italian company wants to sell for 20M.....Chinese 200k.....ahahaa
Not so funny when the rabbits got the gun hun
Watched al jazeera fur ages now and love the way there journalists report on the facts after mostly doing all the investigating true life tv ...am glad we have the opportunity to get watch ......😉
You can make your own 😅😅😅😅😅
Fantastic work , can you do a follow up report on this investigation ?
excellent investigation, bravo AJ!,
good to know security issues and challenges IT security, It will help to focus more and more IT security.
We sale Trust 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
With great technology comes great responsibilities.
No. With great budgets comes great discretion.
Nothing we can do about it!
Its Ironic how a manufacturer of surveillance equipment cannot identify that he himself is being recorded on a camera by Al Jazeera.😂
Hahahha hahha ai spy being spied on
Well done Aljazeera
These Suppliers of such Instruments are like wise guilty of those murdered tortured and jailed young men & women by dictators around the world countries like Iran Pakistan etc are killing torturing young student with the help of these guys sold Instrument. Shame on You .dont u have ltl bite of humanity in U ?
Iran me here and Iran me there, I worked in Iran for six years, these people does not know anything about Iran. Thank you.
I wonder if Scientology has any of these types of systems?!
Also curious... if Police Forces had access or worked with Military or Private Contractors or Black Ops groups... that has any of these types of systems... Especially when it came to Protests of all sorts over the past years around the World?!
Undercover Reporter: So this is HIGHLY ILLEGAL, the sale of this equipment is HIGHLY restricted, but you are ok with this? Are you going to fake the paper work? Do
you this this allot?
Company: Yup! We do it all the time!
🤣 Either these investigative pieces are 100% fake or these are 1st time criminals. It’s painful to watch this degree of ignorance/stupidity OR scripted encounters.
27:37 Did you find it unacceptable that no WMDs were found in Iraq and 500 000 + children paid with their lives, something that Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright found to not only to be acceptable, but "worth it."
Constitution of the co-operative republic of Guyana 1980.
AL JAZEERA ENGLISH big fail you dont know how to runa chat and madam ost gave us Ryan Rifais name a guy who needs to be fired because he cant control a spammer ruining his chat
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2g only. disable 2g and only use it during emergencies like earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes, or big fires, or whenever panic occurs, because most people don't ever use 2g. in Europe, Arab world, turkey for instance still sell 2g phones cause they are cheap and easy to throw away and sim card
They ever work for earning money literally just present punctuation registry know how much time it rothen and was throwed away in garbage to them not the it . It just it .really them .
This spyware industry need’s stricter surveillance on the industry itself !!!!!!! We in the West in are nice countries with free speech take everything for granted but these companies selling these products to war torn and undemocratic countries should not just be ashamed of themselves but be prosecuted to the hilt and closed down.
Excellent investigation, but what about showing the rogue democratic countries and companies that can buy this stuff legally?????
Phone/computer making companies should now come up with dynamic IMSI assignment that changes on devices.. The imsi catcher will catch but make the info collected relatively useless
Qatar has Powerful Team including intelligence challenging Entire Europa
Ok catch me... U huys are biased.... What about us.. gulf countries
Amazing journalism !!! What to do? How do we fight evil? If only we could use this technology for the Good of the world. This would be a modern day miracle.
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