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'I will not be silenced': Women targeted in hack-and-leak attacks speak out about spyware
NBC News ^ | Aug. 1, 2021, | Olivia Solon

Posted on 08/08/2021 2:20:54 PM PDT by george76

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1 posted on 08/08/2021 2:20:54 PM PDT by george76
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Did these women ever think that the solution might be to not put naughty pics of themselves on their cell phones?


2 posted on 08/08/2021 2:24:36 PM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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I am surprised that she is surprised.
If you work for Al Jazzera, and are already seen as controversial, be very careful what you post online.
Even ‘liking’ certain materials can be conflated into something ugly. Jihadists gotta Jihad.

Unfortunately, my own country may not be too far behind in these Hacking tactics.


3 posted on 08/08/2021 2:26:13 PM PDT by lee martell
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Exactly...

They are in show business and images are the currency. Which makes you wonder why they would give it away in the first place.


4 posted on 08/08/2021 2:30:23 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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“Over the next few days she was barraged with thousands of tweets and direct messages...describing her as a prostitute or telling her she was ugly and old.”

She looks pretty hot to me, certainly better than the samples we have to deal with in the US.


5 posted on 08/08/2021 2:30:30 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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Pegasus spyware and NSO Group software can record your calls, copy your messages, and secretly film you..

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3977331/posts


6 posted on 08/08/2021 2:33:32 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: lee martell

She claimed that her phone was hacked, not posted online.


7 posted on 08/08/2021 2:35:39 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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“Did these women ever think that the solution might be to not put naughty pics of themselves on their cell phones?”

EXACTLY - if she wants photos of her taken when she looks like a slut (or a hoe), then she has NO RIGHT to bitch at people calling her just that.

Good to see she was outed for just who she is.


8 posted on 08/08/2021 2:35:58 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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Wow! I hope they don’t hack my phone! They will come up with dozens of pictures of my dogs! Gasp!


9 posted on 08/08/2021 2:40:13 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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Does it ever enter their head that men have been and are being oppressed as well? They are only concerned about themselves.


10 posted on 08/08/2021 2:43:05 PM PDT by alternatives?
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The targets also included Jamal Khashoggi, who was tortured / assassinated by Saudi agents in the kingdom’s consulate in Turkey.


11 posted on 08/08/2021 2:47:02 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Social media is the final nail in our social cohesion. Academia, media, and the Fedgov started the slippery slope.

I wish that MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tic-Tok had never come about. They are destroying our social norms because of anonymity. I was on Facebook for a short time until I saw all the inane posts on my page about someone eating whatever for breakfast or running so many miles, not to mention the pissing contests.

Can't believe people believe those who "friend" them are really worthwhile bragging about it. Cancelled it and never been on Twitter or the others. Pfft.

12 posted on 08/08/2021 2:48:25 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021.)
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Seriously? So you think it’s ok for government proxies to hack the phones of anyone who opposes their policies?

As if spyware couldn’t take surreptitious photos and videos, as if photos can’t be shopped.

But since it’s happening to women, the solutions is for them to not take selfies.

Did it occur to any of you dimbulb men that they can plant child porn on your phone?


13 posted on 08/08/2021 2:49:16 PM PDT by Valpal1
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Pegasus can collect emails, call records, social media posts, user passwords, contact lists, pictures, videos, sound recordings and browsing histories..

The spyware can activate cameras or microphones to capture fresh images and recordings. It can listen to calls and voice mails. It can collect location logs of where a user has been and also determine where that user is now, along with data indicating whether the person is stationary or, if moving, in which direction.

And all of this can happen without a user even touching their phone ..

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3977363/posts


14 posted on 08/08/2021 2:51:33 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Has NBC covered the “hack” (government spying) in Sharyl Attkisson. Wh9 knows what the deep state did with that?


15 posted on 08/08/2021 2:51:36 PM PDT by gunnut
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1 the article is too damn long
2 I can’t stand the romance novel writing style. Why do journalists want to be novelists as well? Someone who can sum up an issue and it’s attendant events in as few words as possible would be a very good journalist.


16 posted on 08/08/2021 2:52:33 PM PDT by webheart (Free of mask, free of mask! Great God almighty.....)
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Did it occur to any of you dimbulb men that they can plant child porn on your phone?

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Pretty much proven via the events around Sharyl Attkisson, they’ll hack into your home or work computer and plant child porn.

That has been the goto method of shutting down problem people since early in the Obama admin.


17 posted on 08/08/2021 2:52:35 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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i am not for hacking into anyones phones for this.

i also am not for people being dumb and taking such pictures of themselves on devices they connect to the internet with.


18 posted on 08/08/2021 2:54:43 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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“ever think”

nope


19 posted on 08/08/2021 2:56:37 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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The joke is it has nothing to do with gender. Stupid Karens. Everything to do with dissent. It’s a genitalia neutral issue dumb bitches.


20 posted on 08/08/2021 2:58:40 PM PDT by Eddie01
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