Yucatan News
August 16, 2015
This is Eduardo Pardo Carvajal, software engineer and adviser to the DEA and the FBI
Merida, Yucatan. The operation of the Galileo system of digital espionage, sold by the Italian company Hacking Team to the government of Yucatan, involve serious security risks for the state, because the information collected may be transferred or filtered to bodies such as the DEA The FBI and other foreign police intelligence systems, warns Jose Antonio Cornejo Pineda, computer security consultant in Tijuana, Baja California.
In fact, he says, one of the technicians responsible for the installation of Galileo in Merida, Eduardo Pardo Carvajal, is considered a "super agent of digital systems of espionage" and is also advisor to the DEA in Colombia and police from other countries said Cornejo Pineda, interviewed by telephone at its offices in Tijuana.
For months, the specialist investigates the effects of Hacking Team operations in the north and advises civic organizations and media de la Frontera on the social risks of uncontrolled spy tools such as Galileo software.
That system, we now know, is vulnerable to external attacks and is not immune to the virus (see http://mayaleaks.org.mx/el-programa-de-espionaje-del-gobierno-vulnerable-y-con -fallas / ).
SPIES WITHOUT CONTROL. The technicians of the Italian company, Cornejo added Pineda, involved in the installation of such systems around the world and themselves can intervene and move systems to other information gathered."There is no safe on the data stored in Galileo control" he says.
The people who settled in Mérida espionage system Galileo, by the government, were self Carvajal Pardo and Lawrence Invernizzi, reports Cornejo Pineda.
They both were in town from 10 to 14 November to install the equipment and train technicians to operate it.
Pardo Carvajal, an engineer in software, originally from Colombia, arrived in Merida, from Bogota, Monday, November 10, 2014. He returned to his country on Friday 14 and from there went to Brazil, with a similar assignment, as follows emails hacked Hacking Team and published by WikiLeaks.
Invernizzi, meanwhile, arrived in Yucatan as Monday November 10, from San Diego California, with part of the equipment that was installed.
Later on Tuesday, 12, the group Daniel Martinez Moreno joined, operations officer Hacking Team in Mexico, who came to dealing with administrative matters and related equipment.
ADVISORY DEA . According to Cornejo Pineda, technicians Hacking Team in Merida taught a course of three days to several people He ignores the number- to operate Galileo in Yucatan, apparently at the site where the equipment is installed, at 6, number 339, between 3A and 3B, Gonzalo Guerrero colony.
Carvajal Pardo says bajacaliforniano specialist, is a known technical advisor to the office of the DEA in Colombia.
-In An email sent their heads of Hacking Team, dated May 20, 2015, Pardo informs them that he has met with the head of the DEA in the country, Michael Casey, who asked advice to finish installing two new programs to intercept all Internet communication in Colombia.
'These systems are in addition to Galileo, which already has the DEA of Colombia, and according to Casey, you want to update with the latest version of the program.
DEA in the South American country, Carvajal Pardo tells his superiors, is interested in extending the contract with Hacking Team. "Your officials are pleased with the news of the upcoming opening of our offices in the US and by the provision of advise in situ in Bogota. "
Superagente . The coach of the Italian company also relates to the use of the Galileo system by some regional offices of the FBI and informed his bosses who in recent weeks has met other DEA agents stationed in Bangladesh, Spain, Italy and several countries Latin America, "interested in our services."
According to Cornejo Pineda, Pardo Carvajal "is a super agent of the installation of espionage, with the possibility of access to the systems of the DEA, the FBI and the government of Mexico and several states and, moreover, is primarily responsible installation and maintenance of systems of police intelligence Colombia and Ecuador ".
GROUP YUCATAN . In political circles of Baja California and among the community of computer specialists in the state, says Cornejo Pineda, have leaked information about the operation of these programs in Mexico.
And long-hence it is known, but lately we've heard rumors about Durango and Yucatan.
For example, in Merida, only a handful of employees can access the system. In addition to the governor, they would be aware Victor Caballero Duran, former Secretary of Government and coordinator of the PRI last election campaign;Roberto Rodriguez Asaph, the secretary of Government and former Secretary of Administration and Finance and Saiden Luis Felipe Ojeda, Secretary of Public Security.
The State Prosecutor and other officials of the security area, said Cornejo, have been left out.
OBJECTIVES. -Also has learned that in Yucatan, as here in Baja California, the technicians in charge of operating the system of espionage are people outside the government and that the program's inception, one of its main purposes was to spy on their own Government officials and political opponents, including details of his private life and communications intervene suspected of involvement in illegal activities.
