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Reminds me of how some ransomware looks for if your default keyboard language is Russian. If so then it exits, doing nothing.
OK, so the best way to protect privacy is to get US-based phone number and install Russian keyboard as a default.
The Israel government gets a pass for anything they do. Whether it is lying about nukes or what they've done to Palestine. NSO is a feather in their cap.
Why are you conflating Israel (a state) and NSO (a fully private company, owned by American private equity at some point)?
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The US provides substantial financial, military, and political aid to Israel, that it does not provide to Germany.
>In a public response, NSO has said its technology helps stop terrorism and that they've installed controls to curb spying against innocent targets. For example, NSO says its intrusion system cannot work on phones with U.S. numbers beginning with the country code +1. So the point is to stop terrorism and to do that they've immediately ruled that all Americans aren't terrorists. That doesn't seem like a good metric of…
These people are in for a world of hurt, the State Department tells the CIA what to do.
>In a public response, NSO has said its technology helps stop terrorism and that they've installed controls to curb spying against innocent targets. For example, NSO says its intrusion system cannot work on phones with U.S. numbers beginning with the country code +1. So the point is to stop terrorism and to do that they've immediately ruled that all Americans aren't terrorists. That doesn't seem like a good metric of…
These people are in for a world of hurt, the State Department tells the CIA what to do.
Your broader point is correct, but no, it doesn't. The CIA is an independent agency [1]. It reports to the DNI [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_agencies_of_the_Un...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_National_Intellige...
The Israel government gets a pass for anything they do. Whether it is lying about nukes or what they've done to Palestine. NSO is a feather in their cap.
Why are you conflating Israel (a state) and NSO (a fully private company, owned by American private equity at some point)?
Because Jerusalem has the power to stop, or at the very least regulate, NSO.
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NSO has repeatedly shown that their statements are pretty much worthless. It's just damage control. I wouldn't put any stock in the "we avoid +1 numbers" to even be real.
Seriously, they're pretty much the Mark Zuckerberg of their industry.
Edit: Replaced „social media“ with „Facebook and Instagram“
I thought the exploited holes were patched by iOS at some point. How are these phones still getting hacked?
There's a lot of buyers, Five Eyes, China, Russia and naturally companies like NSO.
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What is your definition of rogue states? The U.S sells weapons to the Saudis in hundreds of billions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_States%E2%80%93Sau... . So I should believe the U.S thinks it's OK to sell F-15 planes but not OK to sell software? I'm gonna assume yes, there are probably other players in cyber warfare who sell to these countries, probably also the U.S.
> the U.S thinks it's OK to sell F-15 planes but not OK to sell software? The U.S. thinks it's okay to sell F-15s that don't attack Americans and not okay to sell software that attacks Americans. As a, granted, American, I'm not seeing the incoherence.