[HN Gopher] Mexico Became the Biggest User of the World's Most N...
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       Mexico Became the Biggest User of the World's Most Notorious Spy
       Tool
        
       Author : jdkee
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2023-09-02 18:13 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
        
       | slim wrote:
       | Pegasus spyware from NSO group
        
       | localplume wrote:
       | [dead]
        
       | hoppyhoppy2 wrote:
       | Gift link:
       | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/world/americas/pegasus-sp...
        
       | qaz_plm wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/Ejgqd
        
       | paulryanrogers wrote:
       | So the Mexican military claims to use to track cartels yet in
       | practice use it against journalists and activists?!
       | 
       | Perhaps I just fail at reading yet that's what it reads like.
        
         | FirmwareBurner wrote:
         | _> So the Mexican military claims to use to track cartels yet
         | in practice use it against journalists and activists?!_
         | 
         | Government employees misusing power due to lack of
         | accountability and proper checks and bounds? Color me shocked.
         | /s
        
         | speakfreely wrote:
         | Interestingly, the current administration was one of the
         | previous spying targets. AMLO definitely came in as an outsider
         | and had much of the same problems trying to unseat the "deep
         | state"/institutional ruling powers of Mexico as Trump had when
         | he became president in the US.
         | 
         | However, AMLO has been much more effective in transforming the
         | state to his liking: he purchased the loyalty of the military
         | with infrastructure projects and he's completely gutted the
         | civilian federal law enforcement apparatus and re-hired all the
         | federal police into a new agency with management loyal to his
         | political party. The security organizations of the Mexican
         | national government are effectively under single-party control
         | at this point.
         | 
         | But when it comes to pesky journalists asking questions, the
         | new party has the same (if not less) patience than the last
         | one. Expect to see more spying in the future on anyone who
         | isn't towing the party line.
        
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