[HN Gopher] How NSO's Pegasus Is Used to Spy on Journalists
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How NSO's Pegasus Is Used to Spy on Journalists
Author : rcMgD2BwE72F
Score : 159 points
Date : 2021-07-18 16:23 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.haaretz.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.haaretz.com)
| jaquer_1 wrote:
| How would one detect compromised devices?
| dillondoyle wrote:
| They released this on github. I would love for them to put out
| a simple tool that allows you to lookup if your number is on
| the leaked list, they can copy that has my password been pwned
| technique to make it safe
|
| https://github.com/mvt-project/mvt
| _fzslm wrote:
| no idea if this is still the case for the latest version of
| pegasus. but in 2019, it was observed that the malware tries to
| hide its tracks by cleaning DataUsage.sqlite, a database file
| that stores records of tx/rx on mobile data. but it left an
| observable inconsistency in doing so, wiping only one of the
| two pertinent tables. source[0]
|
| [0] https://twitter.com/billmarczak/status/1416801514685796352
| stefan_ wrote:
| How have NSO not caught a car bomb yet? They are literally
| running cyber intelligence ops for foreign governments, many of
| them certainly not NATO buddies, from the heart of Israel.
| 1cvmask wrote:
| After all the news and fanfare and Snowden revelations (there
| was also the Church commission in the 1970s) I really wonder if
| there are any real terrorists that actually use anything
| digital anymore. It seems governments are only left to spy on
| their own citizens, politicians, opposition and public
| advocates.
| southerntofu wrote:
| After all the news of Wikileaks, Black Lives Matter, and
| Church commission revelations (among many others), I really
| wonder why the biggest terrorist organizations in the world
| have not been dismantled: police, intelligence agencies,
| military... These people definitely use digital stuff, but
| nobody seems to be able to catch them?!
|
| On this thesis, English rapper lowkey:
| https://youtube.com/watch?v=kmBnvajSfWU (to watch with your
| favorite invidious/piped instance)
| frickinLasers wrote:
| Without commenting on your comment...why on earth is that
| video age-restricted in the US? That's the most chilling
| thing I've encountered in a long time.
|
| Here's an unrestricted version.
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb2z0XwMtH8
| southerntofu wrote:
| Well i can understand why it's strongly not recommended
| for kids, as it's full of actual images of torture and
| other good deeds of american/european colonization and
| neo-colonial wars.
|
| But that Youtube prevents you from playing age-gated
| videos while logged out is a true shame. Thanks for the
| alternative link! We should upload that to Peertube
| instead :)
| Despegar wrote:
| Unless Israel is selling this to Iran, Syria, China, Russia,
| Cuba or any other Official Enemy of the US, they absolutely
| aren't rocking the boat in anyway. The other "authoritarian"
| governments are the good kind, they're pro-US.
| baybal2 wrote:
| > How have NSO not caught a car bomb yet? They are literally
| running cyber intelligence ops for foreign governments, many of
| them certainly not NATO buddies, from the heart of Israel.
|
| Certainly not NATO buddies? Israel never been a buddy of the
| West. Kennedy almost went for sanctioning them to death, Norko
| style. Such episodes were recurring until late seventies.
|
| It's been a long running trope that NSO, and multiple other
| private espionage companies are just cover outlets for Israeli
| espionage agencies to deny that Israel works with enemies of
| America.
| [deleted]
| keyme wrote:
| NSO are literally owned by a Europe based private equity firm,
| and previously owned by a US based one. Their clients (Saudi &
| UAE) are very much NATO buddies.
| jokoon wrote:
| Governments might consider that journalists can often do more
| damage to a government than car bombs.
| thr0wwy wrote:
| Israel is not in the NATO and it's time that we Westerners stop
| treating it as a Western entity.
|
| More than half of the Israeli population are of Mizrahi (Arab)
| and Sephardi (North African) ancestry. Many of them are
| post-1948 refugees from other Middle Eastern country.
|
| It will be easier to understand Israeli cynicism toward the
| Arab and Islamic world, which includes selling surveillance
| software to brutal Arab regimes, if we stop assuming that the
| country is made of Western Jews.
| bogomipz wrote:
| >"More than half of the Israeli population are of Mizrahi
| (Arab) and Sephardi (North African) ancestry."
|
| The Sephardi are Jews from the Iberian Peninsula who were
| expelled in the 15th century by Ferdiand and Isabella in the
| Alhambra Decree. Sefarad is the Hebrew word for Spain.
| Mizrahi would include include both Northern Africa and what
| we today call the Middle East. Mizrahi is also not an Arab
| disctintion - example Jews from Persia would be Mizrahi as
| would Jews from Central Asian countries. Mizrahi means
| Eastern or Oriental in Hebrew.
| joelbluminator wrote:
| Well in the same note it would be best to assume Israel is
| not a liberal democracy then...
| baybal2 wrote:
| Well, it really, factually isn't for a very obvious reason.
|
| It's Western leaders trying their best to make it seem they
| don't notice it.
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