Links:
The Guardian:The Pegasus Project
Forbidden Stories: All the articles
The Guardian view on spyware sales: the proliferation risks are real
The Israeli surveillance company NSO Group has created, developed and sold hacking software, known as Pegasus, that covertly allows access to mobile devices. Once it gains access, via hitherto unknown flaws in everyday apps, the code can extract messages, photos and emails, record calls and secretly activate microphones. Such is their ubiquity that mobile phones offer a window into our souls. What spyware, like that hawked by NSO, provides is access to our most intimate secrets.
They really didn’t care which country they sold it to, or what in fact it would be used for, despite saying “but, but”
NSO says that it only sells its software to vetted government clients to prevent “terrorism and serious crime”. Unfortunately, that does not appear to have been the case. And it’s not just NSO. Instead, an unregulated global industry has grown up in the shadows to provide cheap spying tools that were once the preserve of the most advanced state intelligence services.
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NSO says that as it does not operate the spyware systems it sells, and does not have access to the data of its customers’ targets, the company cannot supervise their use.
I love when they say that they vetted clients such as Saudi Arabia and India [Modi], what did they glance at an atlas to see if they existed?
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