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How many of these were targeted by Pegasus?
by nextstep 4y ago
How many of these were targeted by Pegasus?
- rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 4y agoZero.
- sofixa 4y agoIt seemed weird, so i checked, and of course Pegasus was used by cartels - https://citizenlab.ca/2018/11/mexican-journalists-investigating-cartels-targeted-nso-spyware-following-assassination-colleague/ https://citizenlab.ca/2018/11/mexican-journalists-investigat.... I knew NSO group were an unscrupulous bunch, but working with cartels against journalists is a new low. Saudi persecution of dissidents is one thing you can try to excuse if you have shit for morals (they went against the law of the land), but cartels?
- tadfisher 4y agoThe way I read that report: NSO has a policy of only selling to governments for anti-terrorism and law enforcement purposes; the Mexican government is a customer; the cartels have insiders in the government and/or have obtained the software from the government. Sort of a corollary to government-mandated encryption backdoors, any offensive software under the control of a government should be considered public knowledge and integrated into your threat model.