Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

Ein Unternehmen vermarktet ein Spionagesystem, mit dem sich Handys orten lassen. Eine Recherche zeigt nun, dass es massenhaft eingesetzt wurde, um Enthüllungsjournalisten, Staatsanwälte und Minister a...

Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

From telecom protocols to a 1.5 million row dataset, here’s how we uncovered the reach and tactics of a mercenary phone-tracking company

<p><i>Mother Jones</i> has a <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/firstwap-altamides-phone-tracking-surveillance-secrets-assad-erik-prince-jared-leto-anne-wojcicki/">long article</a> on surveillance arms manufacturers, their wares, and how they avoid export control laws:</p> <blockquote><p>Operating from their base in Jakarta, where permissive export laws have allowed their surveillance business to flourish, First Wap&#8217;s European founders and executives have quietly built a phone-tracking empire, with a footprint extending from the Vatican to the Middle East to Silicon Valley.</p> <p>It calls its proprietary system Altamides, which it describes in promotional materials as &#8220;a unified platform to covertly locate the whereabouts of single or multiple suspects in real-time, to detect movement patterns, and to detect whether suspects are in close vicinity with each other.&#8221;...</p></blockquote>

► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/firstwap-altamides-phone-tracking-surveillance-secrets-assad-erik-prince-jared-leto-anne-wojcicki/ Operating from their…

In a major investigation, a young reporter uncovers a powerful technology used to spy on thousands of people across the world.

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Ein Unternehmen vermarktet ein Spionagesystem, mit dem sich Handys orten lassen. Eine Recherche zeigt nun, dass es massenhaft eingesetzt wurde, um Enthüllungsjournalisten, Staatsanwälte und Minister a...

Diğer gözetleme araçlarına nazaran piramidin ortasında yer alan ve sessiz sedasız bir şekilde dünya çapında telefon takip imparatorluğu kuran ve merkezi Jakarta'da bulunan First Wap'ın ağı ortaya çıka...

“The problem is the export license, huh? For this we can find a…a way.” It was early June and Guenther Rudolph was in an expansive mood. Sharp-suited, relaxed, and charming, he was standing in a booth in Prague’s Clarion Congress Hotel. Every year the Clarion hosts an exclusive gathering: the premier get-together of the surveillance […]

“The problem is the export license, huh? For this we can find a…a way.” It was early June and Guenther Rudolph was in an expansive mood. Sharp-suited, relaxed, and charming, he was standing in a booth in Prague’s Clarion Congress Hotel. Every year the Clarion hosts an exclusive gathering: the premier get-together of the surveillance […]

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“The problem is the export license, huh? For this we can find a…a way.” It was early June and Guenther Rudolph was in an expansive mood. Sharp-suited, relaxed, and charming, he was standing in a booth in Prague’s Clarion Congress Hotel. Every year the Clarion hosts an exclusive gathering: the premier get-together of the surveillance […]

Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

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I telefoni tracciati con la tecnologia indonesiana First Wap. E' quanto emerge dall'inchiesta "Surveillance Secrets"

Das veraltete SS7-Protokoll diente der Überwachungsfirma First Wap als Einfallstor in Mobilfunknetze. Dieses loszuwerden ist unrealistisch, Schutzmöglichkeiten gibt es trotzdem