As a society, we absolutely have to start actively developing software (OS in the first place) and hardware with privacy as a topmost priority. Using Windows and common Windows apps leaves bizarrely many tracks on the computer. Just take a look at one of the many resources on "computer forensics" and you'll see. And I doubt this can be addressed without decreasing complexity.
I wonder if those supposedly secure Linux distros are actually secure.
Anything from MS, Google, and Apple cannot be trusted.
Let's link to a non-paywalled article: https://citizenlab.ca/2021/07/hooking-candiru-another-mercen... (instead of: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-15/israeli-f... )
Microsoft didn’t attributed it to an Israeli firm, Citizen Lab did. Another article on this also showed pricing reported by Citizen Lab, $1.8 per 10 devices if this is true this market will be exploding unless it will be heavily regulated..
The other Israeli hacking company was NSO Group which was allegedly used in the killing of Khashoggi: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/nso-grou...
Also for targeting activists in India to arrest them on trumped charges and planted evidence on the Bhima Koregaon case. All of them are being held without trial -- a norm of sorts for the current Indian government
The held include activists, reputed professors from IIT.
Microsoft didn’t attributed it to an Israeli firm, Citizen Lab did. Another article on this also showed pricing reported by Citizen Lab, $1.8 per 10 devices if this is true this market will be exploding unless it will be heavily regulated..
>Microsoft doesn’t name Candiru but instead refers to an “Israel-based private sector offensive actor” it calls Sourgum. https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2021/07/15/cyberwe... >We believe Sourgum is an Israel-based private sector offensive actor or PSOA.
I just want to point out Candiru is a fish that supposedly wriggles up someone's ding-dong when they pee in Amazonian rivers while swimming? I'm... gravely... skeptical that it ever actually happens, if I were to guess it's one of those, "I fell on it while getting dressed" situations that are occasionally explained to amused ER doctors. Maybe even one of those, "they put a chemical in the pool that makes the water turn purple when you pee." Whatever the deal with Candiru is, at some point someone suggested naming their spyware after the urethra fish. They might be making the world a worse place, but you can't say they don't have a sense of humor about it.
As a society, we absolutely have to start actively developing software (OS in the first place) and hardware with privacy as a topmost priority. Using Windows and common Windows apps leaves bizarrely many tracks on the computer. Just take a look at one of the many resources on "computer forensics" and you'll see. And I doubt this can be addressed without decreasing complexity.
I wonder if those supposedly secure Linux distros are actually secure. Anything from MS, Google, and Apple cannot be trusted.
Can we submit non-paywalled links. Like the actual source: https://citizenlab.ca/2021/07/hooking-candiru-another-mercen...
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>Microsoft doesn’t name Candiru but instead refers to an “Israel-based private sector offensive actor” it calls Sourgum. https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2021/07/15/cyberwe... >We believe Sourgum is an Israel-based private sector offensive actor or PSOA.
I just want to point out Candiru is a fish that supposedly wriggles up someone's ding-dong when they pee in Amazonian rivers while swimming? I'm... gravely... skeptical that it ever actually happens, if I were to guess it's one of those, "I fell on it while getting dressed" situations that are occasionally explained to amused ER doctors. Maybe even one of those, "they put a chemical in the pool that makes the water t…
Oh I don’t see humor in it at all. These guys picked the name of something that crawls up your urethra because that is how they saw themselves. These are Monsters, not people.