Posted on 07/18/2021 2:01:22 PM PDT by algore
Activists, journalists and politicians around the world have been spied on using cellphone malware developed by a private Israeli firm, it emerged Sunday, igniting fears of widespread privacy and rights abuses.
The use of the software, called Pegasus and developed by Israel's NSO group, was reported on by the Washington Post, the Guardian, Le Monde and other news outlets who collaborated on an investigation into a data leak.
The leak was of a list of up to 50,000 phone numbers believed to have been identified as people of interest by clients of NSO since 2016.
One of those targeted was Hanan Elatr, the wife of Saudi-born Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered by a Saudi hit squad in 2018. Her phone - as well as that of a second female associate - was allegedly targeted before his death.
Among the numbers on the list are those of journalists for media organizations around the world including Agence France-Presse, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, The New York Times, Al Jazeera, France 24, Radio Free Europe, Mediapart, El País, the Associated Press, Le Monde, Bloomberg, the Economist, Reuters and Voice of America, the Guardian said.
The Washington Post said numbers on the list also belonged to heads of state and prime ministers, members of Arab royal families, diplomats and politicians, as well as activists and business executives.
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Yawn....
and what are those Chinese phones doing ?
The governments spy on whoever they want.
Activists, journalists and politicians around the world have been spied on using cellphone malware developed by a private Israeli firm, it emerged Sunday, igniting fears of widespread privacy and rights abuses.
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Sooooo..
Jewish tech easedroppers bad
but
Zuckerberg/USAbigtech easedroppers good ?
Equity sure tastes strange.
So they keep tabs on the scumbags of the world who wish them harm.
That’s what spies do.
“Yawn....”
and you sir, are part of the problem...
out of curiosity, is your house full of private spy devices made by companies such as apple, amazon, or google ?
does Cortana satisfy your desires ?
if so, you opened the door and let them in.
Israel is spying on the enemies of Israel. That’s what spies do.
The Israelis have always been top notch at intel.
Israel spies on everybody. Pretty well known.
When they release the wiretaps on John Roberts and SCOTUS please give me a ping. Those should be damning.
You only spy on the bad guys......today, everyone should be considered a bad guy
We don’t need any damn Israeli spyware. We have NSA,
“Israel is spying on the enemies of Israel.”
Yep. Good for Israel.
USA spies on it’s own citizens.
I haven’t seen much about Israel’s lie-detecting glasses after I read about them many years ago.
Had imbedded uprocessor, mic and micro LEDs. Detected micro tremors in a voice, and lit a green, yellow or red LED accordingly. Red was very nervous.
As for spying on their enemy, the press, well...
kinda explains all the kosher food ads i’m getting...
Information probably leaked by the new leader of Israel...
Just trying to undo anything good done by his predecessor...
He’ll probably stop all those sweet Iranian explosions and fires next...
So how did it get on their cell phones?
Mine is posting on Free Republic.
Yep.
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