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It's relatively well know that the NSO Group / Pegasus is what governments use to access locked phones.
by kingnothing 8mo ago
It's relatively well know that the NSO Group / Pegasus is what governments use to access locked phones.
- 827a 8mo agoThis was known, in the past, but if its relying on zero-days Apple & Google are, adversarially, attempting to keep up with and patch, my assumption would not be that pegasus is, at any time, always able to breach a fully-updated iPhone. Rather, its a situation where maybe there are periods of a few months at a time where they have a working exploit, until Apple discovers it and patches it, repeat indefinitely.
- direwolf20 8mo agoHow does Apple discover their exploits? I'm sure they keep some around for extremely high value targets.
- kingnothing 8mo agoIt's always a game of cat and mouse, but NSO had a quarter billion USD in annual revenue in 2020. They are clearly providing highly effective spyware to governments around the world. It wouldn't surprise me if they have that many zero day, zero click exploits that they can always get in to a phone. We're talking nation state espionage here... they probably have insiders at Apple and Google who introduce subtle unnoticeable bugs in core OS stacks.
- halJordan 8mo agoThe nso group is on the entity list, so no western govt is using it. And it was never used to gain access to devices that they already had physical control over.
- Obscurity4340 8mo agoApple regularly hires Israeli ex-millitary devs