Hossein, who has a day job as a doctor in Cairo, posted the document on the software dubbed FinFisher on his blog, here.

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Read my blog post on what these critical software components are.

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"We know Reader has a devoted following who will be very sad to see it go, " said software engineer Alan Green on the Google Reader blog.

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On the blog of security firm Sunbelt Software, researcher Christopher Boyd highlighted Tuesday a new wave of spam messages flooding into the microblogging service.

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"The Google crisis response team has assembled a Hurricane Sandy map to help you track the storm's progress and provide updated emergency information, " wrote Google software engineer Ka-Ping Yee on the firm's blog.

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Matt Cutts, a senior software engineer for Google, responded to Privacy International in his blog, pointing out what seemed to be an unfair focus on Google.

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