Kenya: WikiLeaks report alleges Hacking Team declined request to shut down whistleblower's website
"Italians reject bid to close Kahawa Tungu"
An apparent government request to have a website associated with controversial blogger Robert Alai to be brought down was rejected by an Italian company contacted to provide an internet hacking system. After the request was received by the Hacking Team...the company’s Operations Manager Ms Daniele Milan wrote back expressing her discomfort.
The July 5 letter addressed to the company’s Key Account manager in charge of Kenya, Mr Emad Shehata, noted that the request was coming from a private company purportedly on behalf of a cyber-security outfit in the Office of the President. It also noted that the targeted Kahawa Tungu website was dedicated to fighting corruption. “The person who wrote us is from a private communication company in Kenya that sells pay TV services, and the URL they asked us to tear down is a news website that is highlighting corruption and other wrongdoings in the Kenya government. I don’t think we want to be involved with this”, wrote Ms Milan according to documents released by online whistleblower, WikiLeaks.