flâneur

How a Tiny Startup Became the Most Important Hacking Shop You’ve Never Heard Of

vice.com · 3,575 words · saved by 1 readers

Inside the secretive industry that helps government hackers get around encryption.

Share: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share using Native tools Share Copied to clipboard At first glance, Azimuth Security looks like any other bustling startup. Photos tweeted by the firm’s co-founder show a staffer zipping in front of glass-walled conference rooms on a hoverboard and employees in T-shirts playing with a stylish chess set over a beer. But this small Australian company plays a crucial role in the continuous battle for spies and cops to hack into phones around the world, Motherboard has learned. The story of this little-known

related reading