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U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware
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#102The 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.
Sounds like you and some other "clever" souls have an axe to grind with Israel.
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#103One settler colony hacks another settler colony, the one that had co-sponsored its creation along with Britain, the mothership of all settler colonies. Honor amongst thieves? No such thing.
A book came out about a year ago by a fantastic academic about the history of settler colonialism by Israel in Palestine [1]. I'd suggest anyone who wants to learn more about Israel and values referenced record of history. The book is very well written, referenced (a sixth of the book is references) and comes highly regarded. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Years-War-Palestine-Resistanc...
Your comment has nothing to do with the article. Stop shoving your sick agenda down our throats and save your "links" to yourself
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Israeli Ministry of Defense licenses the export of Pegasus to foreign governments, but not to private entities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSO_Group#Pegasus
These export controls for weapons exist in much of the western world. Once granted a license, Israel has no legal say in how the product is used by the end user. It’s all very routine and standard, not sure why people need basic explanations of what government export regulation is when the discussion is on Israel.
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#105Seems like not-the-smartest move for Israel to mess with one of the few powerful entities that desires its continued existence
This is just another incident in a long list that goes back decades of Israel getting carte blanche to do whatever they want to the US with little to no repercussion. The most famous probably being USS Liberty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident)
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#106Is there a timetable when Apple plans to stop using memory-unsafe languages to avoid memory-bugs? If not, how can the amount of zero-days stop with constant development?
You do know that memory-safe languages are developed using memory-unsafe languages, and eventually execute the binary code on the actual CPU?
I think it comes from that rewrite everything in Rust camp.
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#107>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…
Funny enough this reminds me of the ransomware that doesn't work if a cyrillic keyboard is installed. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick...
Someone else linked that one, it's hilarious and unsurprising really. Lots of people purposefully avoid certain OSes (mostly linux distros) as well out of respect NOT because of population/userbase of the OS. Lots of discussion on worm/trojan development forums over the years.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
biggest issue here isn't memory safety but the dumpster fire of imessage format that calls out to privileged parts of the system
I'm suspicious of any messaging system that has ties into rich media / embedded-in-chat content. I even wish I could disable URL previews, gifs, and inline images in Signal.
I didn't know it was possible to disable URL previews in iMessage[1] until I read this comment. Does toggling this setting only prevent the preview from displaying or does it prevent the fetch altogether? I wish there were a way to white list the URL previews for certain contacts rather than turning it off all or nothing.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Israeli Ministry of Defense licenses the export of Pegasus to foreign governments, but not to private entities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSO_Group#Pegasus
These export controls for weapons exist in much of the western world. Once granted a license, Israel has no legal say in how the product is used by the end user. It’s all very routine and standard, not sure why people need basic explanations of what government export regulation is when the discussion is on Israel.
It goes much deeper than that. For a while now Israel has been using NSO as an incentive for foreign relations with authoritarian regimes.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/20/pegasus-projec...
https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/foreign-policy-playlist/h...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/world/middleeast/nso-isra...
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/.premium.HIGHL...
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/middle-east/how-israel...
https://www.ft.com/content/24f22b28-56d1-4d66-8f76-c9020b1b5...
https://www.jpost.com/jpost-tech/what-does-the-nso-hacking-s...
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#110Slapping down the NSO doesn't fix the problem. We should be glad we even know that their software exists, imagine if it was completely hidden from the public? The problem is that Apple needs to fix this. Security is an arms race, and the more visibility we have into where it is weak, the better for everyone. To paraphrase the motorcycle repair episode of Winter Steele, "You are stronger now for having been fixed." IM…
I don't think most Apple customers know or care so despite being ostensibly "privacy focused" Apple doesn't have much of an incentive to take action.