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I thought Whatsapp and signal share the same encryption
* https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/14/18622744/whatsapp-spyware...
Interestingly enough, Signal (and others) had the same sort of vulnerability on Android from a WebRTC stack:
* https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/08/exploiting-an...
The big issue in both cases is that the exploit was triggered before the user answered the call.
I think the moral here is that a secure messenger should not execute inherently insecure code (i.e.complex code) on behalf of entities that are not really well trusted by the user. The default should be always plain text.
It is hard to believe that NSO group is allowed to operate. They sell technology to horrible places, they cause death torture, and a host of less horrible things. Yet they are protected by the US and Israel, which I believe is the case that they have backdoors into all of it, and getting the targets to actually install this malware on their own saves a lot time. All good, except for the actual real world victims.
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Valuations don’t really matter in their playing field. It’s more about power and politics, rather than raw numbers.
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Well, good. But also: build better software.
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I'd imagine they have a very limited market as in who they can sell their products and services to, for reasons that might make political power more interesting than valuation.
It is hard to believe that NSO group is allowed to operate. They sell technology to horrible places, they cause death torture, and a host of less horrible things. Yet they are protected by the US and Israel, which I believe is the case that they have backdoors into all of it, and getting the targets to actually install this malware on their own saves a lot time. All good, except for the actual real world victims.
> It is hard to believe that NSO group is allowed to operate. They sell technology to horrible places, they cause death torture, and a host of less horrible things. That describes the entire Israeli defence industry, and a fair sized portion of Israel's cybersecurity industry, based on the stomach-churning sales pitches I've received. NSO are not unique, they just got unlucky.
Care to elaborate? This could be news story-worthy
It is hard to believe that NSO group is allowed to operate. They sell technology to horrible places, they cause death torture, and a host of less horrible things. Yet they are protected by the US and Israel, which I believe is the case that they have backdoors into all of it, and getting the targets to actually install this malware on their own saves a lot time. All good, except for the actual real world victims.