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I keep seeing comments about how NSO is Israeli state funded. I think it's not entirely incorrect (am Israeli, know people who work at NSO and people at 8200) -
by inglor 5y ago
I keep seeing comments about how NSO is Israeli state funded. I think it's not entirely incorrect (am Israeli, know people who work at NSO and people at 8200) - but the relationship is quite sinister and not something the Israeli public was aware of.
As in - NSO's ties to the Israeli government were filled with corruption and NSO was using its own technology in exchange on Israeli citizens.
There is (quite a big) public inquiry and people from NSO will likely (finally) go to jail.
It's quite a big scandal here https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3927410,00.html https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3927410...
- inglor 5y agoAlso note the US government has been using companies like NSO to push its own political agenda since it lets it sell this sort of technology to allies (like Saudi Arabia) without scrutiny. This is following two other scandals relating to NSO in Israel that are getting quite a lot of press here. For example the inquiry suggests that police members used Pegasus to spy on opposition leaders who opposed Netanyahu a-la-Watergate. To be clear this _is_ a watergate level scandal here and you'd be hard pressed to find a news website in Israel not mentioning NSO on the homepage. (Edit: noted I didn't post any citations like https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-netanyahu-gave-greenlight-to-saudi-arabia-to-use-nso-spyware-report-says-1.10573831 https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-netanyahu-gave-... or https://www.jpost.com/international/article-694887 https://www.jpost.com/international/article-694887 but happy to post references on any of the above since it's very easy to find these references (it's all over the news) and I personally dislike NSO)