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Healthcare Design
June 12, 2017
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Mail & Guardian
April 20, 2017
The equipment was made by a South African company called Vastech. Our own legislation requires a warrant issued by a judge to allow legal interception inside the country, but the situation regarding metadata is less clear. Cellphone call records, for instance, can fairly easily be obtained by a police officerÃâà...
Motherboard
December 12, 2016
An excerpt of a tender for a system to intercept traffic at internet exchange cables in Damascus and Aleppo. According to leaked documents, AGT stepped forward once again, this time working with VASTech, a South African company, which would later develop a similar system in Libya. "VASTech does notÃâà...
The Intercept
October 31, 2016
In a 2016 pamphlet produced by VASTech SA Pty Ltd., the company outlines its current capabilities for governments, militaries, and law enforcement agencies around the world, claiming it can conduct “passive detection” of communications transmitted from satellites, fix-and-mobile phones, and fiber opticÃâà...
New Internationalist
July 25, 2016
The Qadafi regime in Libya used China's ZTE and South Africa's VASTech. We don't know whether governments attempt surreptitiously to insert 'backdoors' into products of companies over which they have no direct political or legal control, but many computer security experts believe it is happening.
Mail & Guardian Online
December 17, 2015
In one cable, a 2010 report from the South African National Intelligence Agency (NIA) describes an Iranian government delegation visiting VASTech in 2005, where they received information about “active lawful interception” and “passive unrestricted monitoring”. In the report, the NIA expresses concernsÃâà...
The Guardian
November 18, 2013
Another firm selling similar equipment is VASTech, based in South Africa, which has a system called Zebra. Potential buyers are told it has been designed to help "government security agencies face huge challenges in their combat against crime and terrorism". VASTech says Zebra offers "access to highÃâà...
Vibe Ghana
August 17, 2012
A new Board of Governors for Vakpo Senior High Technical School (VASTECH) has been inaugurated at a ceremony at Vakpo in the Volta Region. The Board under the Chairmanship of Mrs. Patricia Akpene Tegbe-Agbo has been tasked to ensure the effective management of the school in accordanceÃâà...
MyBroadband
December 2, 2011
According to WikiLeaks, VASTech's equipment was also uncovered along with that of other companies in listening rooms in Egypt and Libya after the governments were overthrown this year. This equipment was being used to monitor the every move of citizens “online and on the phone,” WikiLeaks said.