Rise of the Middleboxes: Government Internet Surveillance Continued
As news stories abound of government surveillance, more reports stream in regarding increase of middleboxes, a term coined for government download swapping that has occurred - where allegedly government servers are swapping downloads of certain software with spyware to increase its ability of surveillance on its civilians.

Government spyware is nothing new. Some of the reports from most recent include:

  • Sandvines Packetlogic/AdHose/FinFisher in Turkey/Syria/Egypt
  • Pegasus on Mexican immigrants


We will continue updates on security news and threats.