> The agents said the Israelis’ technology, which helped carriers troubleshoot their customers’ smartphones by sending them an SMS link that enabled the carrier

> The agents said the Israelis’ technology, which helped carriers troubleshoot their customers’ smartphones by sending them an SMS link that enabled the carrier to access the phone remotely, could be useful for saving people’s lives. A decade later: > Saudi Arabia, using “Pegasus,” hacked the phones of Jamal Khashoggi’s ex-wife, and of his fiancée, and used the information gleaned to prepare for his monstrous killing and its subsequent cover-up. [1] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/how-nso-group-pegasus-spyware-found-jamal-khashoggi-fiancee-phone/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/how-nso-group-peg... [2] https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/ns-oh-god-how-is-this-legal https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/ns-oh-god-how-is-this-l...