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The researchers said the discovery also exposes — again — that NSO’s business model involves selling spyware to governments that will abuse it, not just to law enforcement officials chasing cybercriminals and terrorists, as NSO claims.

“If Pegasus was only being used against criminals and terrorists, we never would have found this stuff,” said Citizen Lab researcher Bill Marczak

More evidence why backdoors made or discovered and touted for use by government agencies are ALWAYS a bad idea because they will get leaked and used by bad actors outside of government and bad actors inside governments’ own agencies. It’s inevitable!

24 posted on 09/13/2021 6:32:38 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)

Hi Sword, you helped me figure out what to purchase in ‘17. Now I’m thinking it’s time to buy a new Macbook. Mine is still on High Sierra. Even if I keep this one, is it ok to update it to whatever system, Catalina, etc.? Not seeing an update for Sierra. Thanks, TW

41 posted on 09/14/2021 5:45:14 PM PDT by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the gov out of medicine, education and forests!)