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ICE Has a $2M Contract for Spyware That Can Hack Phones Without a Click

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Re: ICE Has a $2M Contract for Spyware That Can Hack Phones Without a Click

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Post by jmyeet »

empath75 wrote: post #6

for people that don't understand how bad ICE is, here is a brief selection of _recent_ news about ICE, this isn't even like the product of an extensive search Ice buys shock gloves https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/a-perfect-tool-for-abuse... ICE doesn't pay hospital bills: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/ice-detainee-me... DOJ blocked federal prosecution of ICE agent in shooting: https://www.propublic…

> ICE Deports Milo Yiannopoulos, to settle some intra-MAGA feud

This is probably the one valid thing they did. He's truly vile [1]. He's also illustrative of how most undocumented people aren't "sneaking across the border" as the media claims but are simply visa overstayers. Still, Laura Loomer shouldn't have the power to advance his deportation. The story goes that he was in removal proceedings and he didn't show up for his hearing before an immigration judge so was ordered deported in absentia and then ICE picked him up.

Milo Yiannopoulos is just not a hill I'm ever willing to die on.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/30/milo-yiannop...

Re: ICE Has a $2M Contract for Spyware That Can Hack Phones Without a Click

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Post by miohtama »

Meanwhile in Serbia

https://citizenlab.ca/research/pegasus-spyware-infection-of-...

"In collaboration with the SHARE Foundation, the Citizen Lab analyzed forensic artefacts from the iPhone of a member of Serbia’s student protest movement after they received an Apple Threat Notification warning of targeting with mercenary spyware."

Zero clicks are cheap if NSO can afford to go after students.

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Post by catlover76 »

gadders wrote: post #10
empath75 wrote: post #6

for people that don't understand how bad ICE is, here is a brief selection of _recent_ news about ICE, this isn't even like the product of an extensive search Ice buys shock gloves https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/a-perfect-tool-for-abuse... ICE doesn't pay hospital bills: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/ice-detainee-me... DOJ blocked federal prosecution of ICE agent in shooting: https://www.propublic…

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Re: ICE Has a $2M Contract for Spyware That Can Hack Phones Without a Click

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Post by exceptione » 

  > Graphite belongs to the same category of commercial surveillance technology as Pegasus, the better-known spyware developed by NSO Group. Both are classified as mercenary spyware, meaning private companies develop and sell them to government intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
This buries the lede a bit. These companies play their part in trans-national organized crime networks, spanning countries like the USA, Russia and Israel. In Russia, it is often hard to delineate between organized crime and the FSB, because these networks overlap and they are often well established within the structures of the state. The same increasingly applies to the USA. ICE is becoming a paramilitary force, "immigration control" is clearly not its only purpose. I cannot unsee this from the massive purges in the military, rooting out the most competent leadership. The parallels with Russia can't be ignored.

Re: ICE Has a $2M Contract for Spyware That Can Hack Phones Without a Click

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Post by VladVladikoff »

idiotsecant wrote: post #5

>Citizen Lab helped WhatsApp identify and block an active Graphite zero-click exploit in late 2024. How to get murdered by a private equity firm in one easy step.

They’ve been doing this for a while. And actually there’s a pretty great episode of darknet diaries that talks about how they were directly targeted by 8200 agents (taken out to dinner in New York IIRC). They were trying to find dirt on the guy.

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Post by detourdog »

gadders wrote: post #10
empath75 wrote: post #6

for people that don't understand how bad ICE is, here is a brief selection of _recent_ news about ICE, this isn't even like the product of an extensive search Ice buys shock gloves https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/a-perfect-tool-for-abuse... ICE doesn't pay hospital bills: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/ice-detainee-me... DOJ blocked federal prosecution of ICE agent in shooting: https://www.propublic…

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The illegal immigrants are not as scary as ICE.

Re: ICE Has a $2M Contract for Spyware That Can Hack Phones Without a Click

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Post by ChrisArchitect »

Does this article have any information in it from 2026? or is it just a sloppy rehash of information from a year ago.

May 2026: DHS says ICE has 'no relationship' with spyware maker Paragon Solutions

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/22/nx-s1-5831577/dhs-ice-spyware...

Re: ICE Has a $2M Contract for Spyware That Can Hack Phones Without a Click

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Post by peter422 »

gadders wrote: post #10
empath75 wrote: post #6

for people that don't understand how bad ICE is, here is a brief selection of _recent_ news about ICE, this isn't even like the product of an extensive search Ice buys shock gloves https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/a-perfect-tool-for-abuse... ICE doesn't pay hospital bills: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/ice-detainee-me... DOJ blocked federal prosecution of ICE agent in shooting: https://www.propublic…

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I’m sure we could come up with a better system than paying extreme amounts of money to detain in terrible conditions non-violent people who were following the rules that were previously given to them.
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