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Only curbing "abuse" implies that "normal use" of state-sponsored spyware remains kosher.
A hard blow to Israel's policy just as much as it is to NSO itself.
Where did they sue NSO group? If it's a US suit, I don't see that meaning much. Why wouldn't NSO just ignore it in that case?
The pdf was literally right in the link: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/Apple_v_NSO_Complaint_11... UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION
Where did they sue NSO group? If it's a US suit, I don't see that meaning much. Why wouldn't NSO just ignore it in that case?
Could the company and its executives could be sanctioned based on this court case ?
It already has been [1].
[1] https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2021/11/commerc...
Where did they sue NSO group? If it's a US suit, I don't see that meaning much. Why wouldn't NSO just ignore it in that case?
The pdf was literally right in the link: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/Apple_v_NSO_Complaint_11... UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION
Legal methods are a crutch at best. Apple would be wise to put forth the same budget into their security team's research and development and properly address these weaknesses.
The framing of NSO as "state-sponsored" cannot be overstated, and Apple didn't miss the chance to do just that. A hard blow to Israel's policy just as much as it is to NSO itself.
Though the fact the US has sanctioned an Israeli business does seem to have potential implications on Israeli policy. [1]
[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-blacklists-four-compan...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can an upset judge decide to put the NSO leaders and employees on a terrorist list? They could argue it was an attack on national security if they can show some important person from US would have been hacked by a foreign government. Then if EU could put the same guys also on the list maybe there would be some effects.
I'm talking about the discovery process. Will we learn anything we don't know already if NSO isn't required to cooperate? Probably not.
For example you wouldn't have had to come back to explain the context of your comment if your "I strongly doubt anything will come of this." had ended with "..come of this in discovery."
The amount of time that Apple sat on this is telling. First reports on NSO activity are from 2016, Facebook filed in 2019, Apple iOS 14.8 fix released in Sept 2021. Only when the constant negative news about NSO started chipping at their reputation, did they decide to make this symbolic (and ultimately ineffective) move.
Read the New York Times article. It says that Apple was only able to file this suit because of a court ruling in a similar suit by Facebook and because it was given code that showed it how Pegasus works. There is nothing at all "telling" about Apple's timing.