I don't doubt the Mossad/NSO link either but as for "empowering and giving away" I wouldn't reach that far. Rather I suspect they were selling it as hacking-as

I don't doubt the Mossad/NSO link either but as for "empowering and giving away" I wouldn't reach that far. Rather I suspect they were selling it as hacking-as-a-service and the clients they had never actually got their hands on the software or any physical servers (apart from possibly NSO relays), rather everything probably passed through their servers hosted in Israel where they could control that +1 and +972 numbers were never targeted. The people they had as client only cared as long as they got into the iPhones,etc they wanted, I doubt they cared if they had control of the software or not.