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Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror

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Re: Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror

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https://thenextweb.com/news/kashmirs-police-want-people-to-r...

And more news like this. I have been told by a WhatsApp admin who runs a news group how the police took his mobile phone and returned it back after some time and he has been warned multiple times to not post any news critical to india.

I believe they install this nso spyware or something similar on their phones so they get to know what is spreading and who is doing what.

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The story about the cam and mic being activated suggests some deeper hacking of Android and iOS themselves? I agree some more technical details would have been nice. Edit: Was meant as reply to noduerme

They use android/ios zero days. They have root on the system.

Re: Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror

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https://thenextweb.com/news/kashmirs-police-want-people-to-r... And more news like this. I have been told by a WhatsApp admin who runs a news group how the police took his mobile phone and returned it back after some time and he has been warned multiple times to not post any news critical to india. I believe they install this nso spyware or something similar on their phones so they get to know what is spreading and w…

Your friend should consider that device compromised and get a new one

Re: Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror

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The investigation on Forensic Architecture's page can be found here: https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/digital-viol...

The website features a platform for exploring over 1,000 "NSO-related activities, and demonstrates new connections and patterns between ‘digital violence’ using Pegasus and real-world violence directed at lawyers, activists, and other civil society figures": https://www.digitalviolence.org/#/explore

Re: Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror

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post #5
post #3

The story about the cam and mic being activated suggests some deeper hacking of Android and iOS themselves? I agree some more technical details would have been nice. Edit: Was meant as reply to noduerme

They use android/ios zero days. They have root on the system.

These are state actors, for all we know they might even have their own personal Android backdoor.

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Is it me or this website is unusable with slightly restrictive javascript policies? My fans start screaming, i'm getting disfunctional menus at the bottom and a scroller at the top. I deactivated decentraleyes and umatrix, only thing is ublock and my restrictive firefox base profile.

Re: Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror

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I'm not sure I understand. Were these Whatsapp and email accounts compromised because there was just a very high level of customization and tailoring in the phishing emails?

Where it says "the whatsapp hack" it's referring to this: https://www.theregister.com/2019/05/14/whatsapp_zero_day/
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