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Journalists as messengers have always been targeted, and even killed, and it seems that Apple’s messaging system was the attack vector here. While the article
by 1cvmask 6y ago
Journalists as messengers have always been targeted, and even killed, and it seems that Apple’s messaging system was the attack vector here.
While the article decries NSO being nefarious and selling to suspect “authoritarian” countries, high schools here in our democratic US have been buying hacking solutions to spy on students:
https://gizmodo.com/u-s-schools-are-buying-phone-hacking-tech-that-the-fbi-1845862393 https://gizmodo.com/u-s-schools-are-buying-phone-hacking-tec...
- lawnchair_larry 6y agoThat isn’t a spy tool. It’s for forensics. You have to hand over your phone and unlock it voluntarily, and physically attach it to that thing and dump it. Very different.
- _kbh_ 6y agoIts only for forensics because schools cannot afford the version that breaks into the phone for you, its expensive and not something that a school can get access to.
- lawnchair_larry 6y agoNo. It’s because they’re totally different products, and cellebrite, a forensics company, doesn’t make a version that you are describing. They make forensics products, not monitoring tools. They have nothing to do with NSO.
- _kbh_ 6y agoThis certainly sounds like something that breaks into a phone to me. https://www.cellebrite.com/en/ufed/ https://www.cellebrite.com/en/ufed/ They don’t have to have anything to do with NSO to have phone exploits that they use to gain access to the device without the owners permission.
- lawnchair_larry 6y agoIt isn’t a backdoor or spy tool. It cannot be used for surveillance.