Posted on 12/22/2022 11:33:51 AM PST by Enterprise
The FBI has obtained Pegasus spyware from the Israeli company NSO Group, which allows the agency to take complete control of a person’s phone without their knowledge. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has demanded answers from the FBI about how often it uses this invasive tool to hack Americans and whether the agency has gotten authorization from the courts to do so.
“The American people have a right to know the scale of the FBI’s hacking activities and the rules that govern the use of this controversial surveillance technique,” Wyden said in a letter Tuesday to FBI Director Chris Wray.
In particular, Wyden asked whether the FBI warned the State Department about NSO’s software. NSO’s Pegasus tool was later reportedly used to hack the phones of State Department employees overseas.
These practices are a clear violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy, and they must be stopped. No American citizen should have to worry that their phone is being used as a spying device by the federal government.
(Excerpt) Read more at libertyonenews.com ...
And idiot Ron just gave the FIB a raise
Bump!
They did indeed.
“The FBI has obtained Pegasus spyware from the Israeli company...”
I suspect that there are some who are going to accuse him of being anti-Semitic for noticing this.
This has to be a Bee article. NO Democrat would say THAT.
Period.
That’s good, senator, but who’s in charge here? congress or the American version of the KGB?
Possibly both since the American version of the KGB has shown they can rig elections to appoint whomever they like.
HAHAHAHA. That senator from New York (yes I know) is on the intelligence committee. He is in on it if not outright directing the FBI to wipe out his enemies. This is the biggest joke trying to make him see like the hip cool antifa supporting (which he supported and defended in Oregon) Senator.
Must Bee? It would bee the first time Wydum has attempted anything productive.
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He’s Jewish. Just sayin’.
Amazing, gotta be the very first time.
What do we know of the capabilities of this software?
We know this much - the FBI is NOT using this software to catch criminals of members of Cartels. They're using this software to go after free conservative American citizens. Maybe the FBI can send some agents over to 'do' Sam Bankman... birds of a feather and all - people of the same stripe. It can't only be Lisa Page who's cheap.
Great article link. Thanks!
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