The company behind the “spyware” distributed to BlackBerry users in the United Arab Emirates as part of an apparent government surveillance effort exposed last week is neither a shady hacking outfit nor a false front for a team of spies in a bunker.
Instead, SS8 is based in Silicon Valley, backed by top-tier venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and largely serves law enforcement agencies.
The company, more than 15 years old, is a solid part of a growing industrial-surveillance complex that weaves together innovation in monitoring, new government cyber-security initiatives and rapid expansion in connectivity.
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