Discussion

• @markscott82 Mark Scott on x

  It's not just authoritarian govts that want access to people's encrypted messages. Officials across US, EU, UK and Australia are also gunning for their own backdoors. 👇 https://twitter.com/...

• @john_hudson John Hudson on x

  NEW: The phone number of Biden's Iran deal negotiator Rob Malley was among the list of 50,000 phone numbers obtained by the Pegasus project, which includes journalists and human rights activists infected with spyware by the Israeli firm NSO 1/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @jsrailton John Scott-Railton on x

  21. BREAKING: Americans 🇺🇸 including US. Gov. officials are on the #PegasusProject list... ...even the #Biden administration's lead Iran negotiator Robert Malley! #NSOGroup is an urgent national security problem for the United States. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://t…

• @evan_greer Evan Greer on x

  this is great https://twitter.com/...

• @zackwhittaker Zack Whittaker on x

  It's a really great project built by the same Amnesty researchers who confirmed Pegasus infections on victims' phones. MVT lets anyone take a backup of their phone and scan for indicators of compromise associated with Pegasus. https://techcrunch.com/... https://t.co/dhoImNvw4P

• @matthew_d_green Matthew Green on x

  Hope @IsMyPhoneHacked adds NSO detection soon.

• @zackwhittaker Zack Whittaker on x

  MVT runs in the terminal. You have to feed in the Pegasus IOCs (which Amnesty provides), and the whole scan lasted about a minute. An iPhone I checked flagged a false positive (since fixed in the IOCs). A rescan with updated IOCs gave back the all-clear. https://techcrunch.com/..…

• @zackwhittaker Zack Whittaker on x

  New: Amnesty researchers published a toolkit for the #PegasusProject to help anyone scan their iPhone and Android devices for evidence of compromise by NSO's Pegasus spyware. Mobile Verification Toolkit (MVT) is easy to use (even I figured it out). https://techcrunch.com/...

• @zackwhittaker Zack Whittaker on x

  NSO issued a statement today, saying two things: 1) Pegasus wasn't involved in Jamal Khashoggi's murder, and 2) it doesn't have visibility into what customers do or who they target with Pegasus. These two statement seem to be in conflict. Statement here: https://www.nsogroup.com/…

• @ahmetasabanci @ahmetasabanci on x

  Fully agree with @Snowden on this one. No “better vetting” or “deeper investigation”, just a total ban on all kinds of spyware and companies making it. And put all those people working at NSO on trial for the crimes committed with their tools. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

• @elhamfakhro @elhamfakhro on x

  Female activists are often targeted with kompromat (compromising material). In Azerbaijan, intimate photos of a civil society activist were leaked onto a fake Facebook page. In Saudi, activist Loujain al-Hathloul was selected for possible targeting weeks before her 2018 abduction…

• @dawnmenaorg Dawn Mena on x

  The selection of activists, dissidents and journalists by NSO clients paints a very different picture, though one that campaigners will say was grimly predictable given the tool has been sold to some of the world's most repressive regimes.https://theguardian.com/ ...

• @marcowenjones Marc Owen Jones on x

  Yup, this is why privacy is paramount and the ridiculous saying “if you're not doing anything wrong you don't have anything to worry about” is absurd https://twitter.com/...

• @wcathcart Will Cathcart on x

  The spyware industry is out of control and it must be stopped. https://twitter.com/...

• @maasalan @maasalan on x

  Systems and regulations have been broken for a very long time, yet nothing has been done. Iranians struggle to access basic app stores and Internet services because of sanctions, meanwhile Israel is selling military-grade surveillance equipment to authoritarian governments. https…

• @marietjeschaake Marietje Schaake on x

  Pegasus Project sheds new light on the victims of NSO's spyware. But let's not pretend these important revelations also reveal this sector for the first time. The depth of harms has been well known for more than a decade now. Traders act with impunity ↘️ https://www.theguardian.c…

• @washingtonpost @washingtonpost on x

  Military-grade Israeli spyware was used in attempted and successful hacks of 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, human rights activists, business executives and the fiancee of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a global investigation finds. https://www.washingtonpost…

• @rohanv Rohan Venkat on x

  Government of India: “Reports [of Pegasus hacking] had no factual basis and were categorically denied by all parties, including WhatsApp.” Meanwhile, actual head of WhatsApp: https://twitter.com/...

• @josephfcox Joseph Cox on x

  Newly released NSO linked domains https://github.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @wcathcart Will Cathcart on x

  This groundbreaking reporting from @Guardian, @WashingtonPost, and many others demonstrates what we and others have been saying for years: NSO's dangerous spyware is used to commit horrible human rights abuses all around the world and it must be stopped. https://www.theguardian.c…

• @fbdnstories Forbidden Stories on x

  India, Hungary, Morocco, Azerbaijan: as part of the #PegasusProject, @FbdnStories and 16 media organizations have identified more than 180 journalists around the world, all selected as potential targets of spyware. Our investigation: https://forbiddenstories.org/ ...

• @snowden Edward Snowden on x

  There are certain industries, certain sectors, from which there is no protection. We don't allow a commercial market in nuclear weapons. If you want to protect yourself you have to change the game, and the way we do that is by ending this trade. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

• @anujsrivas Anuj Srivas on x

  Citizen Lab, the org that partially laid the groundwork for WhatsApp's lawsuit against NSO, did a peer review of Amnesty's methodology and found it to be sound. They had done 4 blind tests too and came to the same conclusions.👇 https://citizenlab.ca/...

• @drewharwell Drew Harwell on x

  @SushantSin @Snowden Omar Radi, a Moroccan journalist who exposed government corruption and was hacked by an NSO client believed to be the Moroccan government ( https://www.theguardian.com/ ...), was sentenced today to 6 years in prison: https://cpj.org/...

• @josephfcox Joseph Cox on x

  Amazon shuts down some NSO Group infrastructure. Comes after researchers found clear links between Amazon's CloudFront product and real world hacks using NSO, including on a French human rights lawyer https://www.vice.com/...

• @snowden Edward Snowden on x

  This is an industry that should not exist: they don't make vaccines—the only thing they sell is the virus. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

• @amnesty @amnesty on x

  BREAKING: Thousands of iPhones have potentially been compromised. Our forensic analysis has uncovered irrefutable evidence that through iMessage zero-click attacks, NSO's spyware has successfully infected iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 models. #PegasusProject https://www.amnesty.org/...

• @thedeshbhakt @thedeshbhakt on x

  Forget autocratic governments that didn't have much of a reputation to begin with. The #PegasusProject also has ripped apart @Apple's balderdash over iPhone security- perhaps the ONLY area that was allegedly superior to Android phones. Will Cupertino folks explain the tall lies? …

• @washingtonpost @washingtonpost on x

  NSO Group has said repeatedly that its surveillance tools do not work against smartphones based in the United States, but Americans traveling overseas and using foreign cellphones may not enjoy that protection. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @snowden Edward Snowden on x

  Stop what you're doing and read this. This leak is going to be the story of the year: (LINK: https://t.co/...) https://twitter.com/...

• @nramind N. Ram on x

  Shocking, yes, by normal standards — but should we really be shocked by these revelations about India's authoritarian regime? Who else but the Union government or its agencies could have done this? https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

• @scottadamssays Scott Adams on x

  I operate under the assumption that all of my communications are compromised. https://twitter.com/...

• @safimichael Michael Safi on x

  NEW from the Pegasus Project: An NSO client we believe was Narendra Modi's government hacked an opposition campaign manager during this year's West Bengal elections and identified Rahul Gandhi, his friends and staff as possible surveillance targets https://www.theguardian.com/ ..…

• @free_thinker Pratik Sinha on x

  Citizen Lab (@citizenlab) peer-reviewed the above report by Amnesty and the methodology used by Amnesty, and have stated that the findings are sound. https://citizenlab.ca/... 4/4

• @abirghattas Abir Ghattas on x

  Amazing work by @AmnestyTech and its media partners! The team and the journos had access to over 50k phone numbers of people of interest by clients of spyware company #NSO. It includes world leaders, activists and journalists. https://www.amnesty.org/...

• @snowden Edward Snowden on x

  If we don't do anything to stop the sale of this technology, it's not just going to be 50,000 targets. It's going to be 50 million targets, and it's going to happen much more quickly than any of us expect. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

• @matthew_d_green Matthew Green on x

  It's really amusing to me that people with any kind of reputation would join NSO and not expect to get horribly burned.

• @matthew_d_green Matthew Green on x

  Remember when NSO announced that big “governance and compliance” committee, which was supposed to keep it from pointing their spy tools at journalists and opposition political leaders? What happened to that.

• @matthew_d_green Matthew Green on x

  I wonder if Tom Ridge and Gerard Araud are feeling upset about all this. I know Juliette Kayyem already left.

• @snowden Edward Snowden on x

  They spied on the opposition. They spied on judges, journalists, and even teachers. They spied on their wives and children, their doctors — and priests. It is unbelievable how deep this story goes. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

• @drparameshwara Dr. G Parameshwara on x

  Alarming! “A powerful surveillance tool licensed only to governments was used to infiltrate mobile phones belonging to at least seven people in India and was active on some of their devices as recently as this month.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @rajuparulekar Raju Parulekar on x

  Thread. Largest Undemocracy https://twitter.com/...

• @safimichael Michael Safi on x

  Much more to come from India and around the world today and over the next days https://twitter.com/...

• @seemay Seema Chishti on x

  What else was Watergate that forced Nixon to resign? https://twitter.com/...

• @jslaternyc Joanna Slater on x

  It also said that “any interception... is done as per due process of law.” It did not respond to our question asking whether any arm of the government has ever been an NSO client. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @anjalib_ Anjali Bhardwaj on x

  So basically before the 2019 elections, the BJP govt potentially surveilled phones belonging to the main opposition leaders and their aides, journalists, civil society activists AND an election commissioner!!! If this isn't subversion of electoral democracy, what is? https://twit…

• @faizanlakhani Faizan Lakhani on x

  “The records included at least one number once used by Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, as well as hundreds of others in the country. Khan did not respond to a request for comment.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @vikramchandra Vikram Chandra on x

  This thread from @jslaternyc has many of the names on “the list” including Rahul Gandhi, Prashant Kishor, Ashok Lavasa, PS Patel and new IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw... https://twitter.com/...

• @seemay Seema Chishti on x

  *11* numbers used by the former court assistant and her family were put under #Pegasus surveillance. https://twitter.com/...

• @palshikarsuhas Suhas Palshikar on x

  Those who refused to be shocked in all these seven years are unlikely to be shocked Now! They have good shock absorbers. https://twitter.com/...

• @parasnsingh95 Paras Nath Singh on x

  Virologist Gagandeep Kang struggled to imagine why she would be deemed a target of surveillance. “I lead a very, very boring life,” she said. https://twitter.com/...

• @suchitrav Suchitra Vijayan on x

  Well this is what most people predicted or thought was going on— this is also just the tip of the iceberg. What we do not know is this — the extent to which @narendramodi has enabled absolute use of un fretted power and dissolved all semblance of accountability. https://twitter.c…

• @saurabhtodi Saurabh Todi on x

  This is definitely intriguing. Also, it may be imprudent to assume that all Indians were exclusively targeted by Indian agencies. Many other govts or spy agencies might benefit from obtaining kompromat on many among those named in these lists. This merits deeper investigation. ht…

• @shekhargupta Shekhar Gupta on x

  The biggest surprise is the name of Gagandeep Kang. She's among India's foremost virology/vaccinology experts, a member of the Royal Society. Who'd want to eavesdrop on her, and why... https://twitter.com/...

• @jslaternyc Joanna Slater on x

  How extensively was Pegasus spyware used in the world's largest democracy? We found forensic evidence that it was active on Indian phones as recently as *last week*. Read more here and below... 1/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @dhrubachoudhur5 Dhruba Budhadeb Choudhury on x

  The spyware is sold to governments to fight terrorism. In India, it was used to hack journalists & others... The confirmed infections of seven phones represent a tiny fraction of what may be a vast surveillance net in Modi's India... #BharatiyaJasoosParty https://www.washingtonpo…

• @narangvipin Vipin Narang on x

  One part of the Government of India was using Pegasus against not only Indian citizens, but against other parts of the GoI and against democratically elected members of Parliament—both opposition and within the BJP! The question is which part of the GoI and on whose authority. ht…

• @nihamasih Niha Masih on x

  BREAKING: More names in the list out now. @RahulGandhi, his aides and friends; Ashok Lavasa, key election official considered an obstacle to the ruling party; @PrashantKishor and members of the family of the woman who accused CJI Gogoi of sexual harassment https://www.washingtonp…

• @atti_cus Dushyant on x

  So he molested a woman, went after her family once she protested, got her brother fired, and now we know- got the government to buy Israeli software and snoop on her family. https://twitter.com/...

• @snowden Edward Snowden on x

  “Those who did [the hacking] were looking to take undue advantage of their position of power... It is an attack on the democratic foundations of our country. It must be thoroughly investigated and those responsible be identified and punished.” https://t.co/85DTF6cRwB

• @bdutt Barkha Dutt on x

  So the opposition politicians names are out in @guardian #PegasusProject https://twitter.com/...

• @safimichael Michael Safi on x

  One of the most shocking things we found in India: A woman accuses the country's most senior judge of sexual harassment. Two days after she goes public, her phone number and those of several family members are identified as candidates for surveillance https://www.theguardian.com/…

• @kenroth Kenneth Roth on x

  Rather than stop selling its highly intrusive spyware to governments with a history of persecuting journalists and activists, the Israeli NSO Group hired “Washington power brokers” to try to cleanse its tainted image. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @davidakaye David Kaye on x

  as one would expect, NSO Group developed a circle of enablers in washington (but, of course, not only there). @drewharwell is on the story. among other things... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @washingtonpost @washingtonpost on x

  The surveillance giant has failed to build a big business in the U.S. But an influential network of consultants, lawyers and lobbyists still made money representing the company. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @washingtonpost @washingtonpost on x

  The Pegasus Project | A global investigation: How Washington power brokers gained from NSO's spyware ambitions https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @jimstewartson @jimstewartson on x

  👮🏻Arrest Mike Flynn.👮🏽‍♀ ️ https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @snowden Edward Snowden on x

  Read about the Biden, Trump, and Obama officials who accepted blood money from the NSO group to bury any efforts at accountability — even *after* their involvement in the death and detention of journalists and rights defenders around the world! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @zackwhittaker Zack Whittaker on x

  Amazon has known NSO used its infrastructure for at least a year. (It also hasn't been a secret among researchers.) Remember when tons of location data for its contact tracing tech “Fleming” was exposed? Yep, that was all AWS, too. Curious to see if Amazon will act more broadly. …

• @lorenzofb Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai on x

  Why would you pay your PR people to write 2,800 words in an email and then forbid journalists from quoting any of it? Dear Apple, this is a ridiculous PR strategy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @kimzetter Kim Zetter on x

  “The text delivered last month to the iPhone 11... made no sound. It produced no image. It...delivered malware directly onto her phone—and past Apple's security systems... The hacked phones included an iPhone 12 with the latest of Apple's software updates.” https://www.washington…

• @violetblue Violet Blue® on x

  Guy Rosen, who founded FB's Onavo VPN app that was legit spyware, got pulled when caught. Connects to NSO's Pegasus b/c according to NSO court docs, FB wanted Pegasus b/c Onavo's spying on iPhones was too limited: https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @dinodaizovi Dino A. Dai Zovi on x

  I do think iOS' security capabilities from Apple's vertical integration of hardware + software is a super-power and leads to best-in-class security engineering and features. The challenge is that due to their monoculture, they have to be ridiculously better at it than Android.

• @reedalbergotti Reed Albergotti on x

  At the same time, Apple has done some really advanced things with security, like using purpose-built processors to protect devices. But those projects happen internally and are based more on hypotheticals, not specific threats like NSO Group.

• @carissaveliz Carissa Véliz on x

  Even #BigTech is calling for #NSO to be stopped. In this case, @WhatsApp's CEO. #WhatsApp was right to sue #NSOGroup But let's not forget that everyone who has normalized #surveillance is complicit in the attempted murder of #democracy. 8 https://twitter.com/...

• @mfinkel Matt Finkel on x

  Me: How does Android compare? Article: “three of the 15 Android phones examined showed evidence of a hacking attempt” Me: But...? Article: “but that was probably because Android's logs are not comprehensive enough” https://twitter.com/...

• @reedalbergotti Reed Albergotti on x

  But shareholders don't get paid in courage. Meanwhile, this hacking has a tremendous cost, hurting democracy around the world. So what's the answer? I certainly don't have them, but it's an issue I hope we talk about a lot more in the near future.

• @ortegaalfredo Alfredo Ortega on x

  iOS may have better security, but I don't think you can use a single exploit chain in >50000 Android targets. Too much variation. Apple lack of software diversity is its downfall. https://twitter.com/...

• @asymco Horace Dediu on x

  @spwells @tangojoshua Don't worry, the EU has got your back. Apple will be forced to allow side-loading of apps which are not subject to privacy or security scrutiny.

• @ashk4n Ashkan Soltani on x

  Folks looking into @Apple / @NSOgroup: Follow The Money This ecosystem is incredibly well-resourced and fueled by govs / oligarchs who can afford to pay large sums to surveil their targets. A single limited shelf-life vuln can be worth upwards of $1M https://developer.apple.com/ …

• @reedalbergotti Reed Albergotti on x

  One former employee told me the security team would send canned responses (to ensure they would not be vetoed by the marketing team) to researchers who submitted bugs. That kind of communication does not lead to good relationships with security researchers.

• @mfinkel Matt Finkel on x

  Me: Okay. We don't know if there are fewer compromised Android devices because: 1) Google is just better than Apple at this, 2) market share, or 3) Google's not systemically better, but NSO doesn't have a zero-click vuln right now. Article: Think whatever you want.

• @reedalbergotti Reed Albergotti on x

  As @craiu told me, that means we don't know the extent of the problem. He said if Apple allowed more analysis of iPhones for malware, it would generate bad press, but make iPhones more secure. That takes courage, he said.

• @parismartineau Paris Martineau on x

  i don't think the average reader understands how much tech companies love restricting the amount of useful information journos can publish about their operations https://twitter.com/...

• @mfinkel Matt Finkel on x

  Me: So, Android? Article: “Google has a threat analysis team that tracks NSO Group and other threat actors” Me, great, soooo Android? Article: “A head-to-head comparison of the security of Apple's and Google's operating systems and the devices that run them is not possible”

• @cesare_c Cesare Coscia on x

  @ryanaraine I think their model of bundling security fixes with OS releases is destined to change. They need to move to micro services similar to Google to stay ahead of bad actors. It's an archaic model.

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  WAIIIIIIITTTTTTTT Facebook's “VP of Integrity” who willingly put his name and reputation on the press release pushing back on White House co-founded Onavo (FB's surveillance tool)????? I entirely forgot about this. He's the VP of Integrity???? You can't make this garbage up. http…

• @wcathcart Will Cathcart on x

  Indeed. https://twitter.com/...

• @dinodaizovi Dino A. Dai Zovi on x

  There is a nuanced trade-off between security in a monoculture of targets versus in a diverse ecosystem. Artificial diversity such as ASLR isn't quite it. I spoke about this a bit just as my voice was completing giving out at Black Hat Asia in 2016: https://www.youtube.com/... ht…

• @reedalbergotti Reed Albergotti on x

  Apple has so many bugs that it can't fix them all, and can take years to implement fixes. It created a bug bounty program in 2016, which it says pays the most in the industry. But inside and outside the company, the view is that it has room for improvement. A lot of room.

• @uzmabarlaskar Uzma on x

  @matthew_d_green I wish they didn't have a dismissive tone because it impacts only a small group of ppl. Protection against mass surveillance may not be enough if all it takes to silence free speech are tapping journalists and the opposition. The trickle down impact of this can b…

• @rohini_sgh Rohini Singh on x

  Hello @Apple. When are you taking NSO to court? Why should people pay a premium on your products if they are so easy to hack into? https://twitter.com/...

• @washingtonpost @washingtonpost on x

  Pegasus, NSO's signature surveillance tool, can collect emails, call records, social media posts, user passwords, contact lists, pictures, videos, sound recordings and browsing histories, according to security researchers and NSO marketing materials. https://www.washingtonpost.co…

• @matthew_d_green Matthew Green on x

  I think it's amusing that we're still having a debate about breaking end-to-end encryption in a world where governments indiscriminately toss NSO at their political opponents.

• @matthew_d_green Matthew Green on x

  I sympathize with Ivan here. Imagine building up Apple's security for years and doing a great job, then finding out you also have to deal with the worst people, willing to spend infinite money on bespoke exploits — so they can murder journalists. https://twitter.com/...

• @josephmenn Joseph Menn on x

  Apple's iMessage is a hot mess. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @jasonhaw_ Jason Haw on x

  Of all the Pegasus news articles in the past 24 hours, this is probably the most disappointing because Apple likes to tout they have the most secure smartphones - the iPhone's security features are basically a dud against Pegasus https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @alexhern Alex Hern on x

  The security of iPhones is, Apple assures us, world class. But it hides an unspoken trade-off: the same restrictions that make it so hard to hack also mean users have to have total faith in iOS security. And when that fails, it fails hard: https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

• @reginadulanjali Regina Dulanjali on x

  Apple sent a 2800-word explanation to Washington Post defending iPhone but says Apple can't be quoted directly. Why can't Apple be quoted directly? BTW - heading of the Washington Post article is “Despite the hype, iPhone security no match for NSO spyware” https://twitter.com/...

• @snowden Edward Snowden on x

  “Apple restricts the access researchers have to iOS in a way that limits the ability of consumers to discover when they've been hacked.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @jimwaterson Jim Waterson on x

  This explanation of the Pegasus spyware and how it no longer even requires a target to click a dodgy link before gaining full access to the user's phone is pretty chilling. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

• @geoffreyfowler Geoffrey A. Fowler on x

  Zero-click attacks “can work on even the newest generations of iPhones, after years of effort in which Apple attempted to close the door against unauthorized surveillance—and built marketing campaigns on assertions that it offers better privacy & security” https://www.washingtonp…

• @snowden Edward Snowden on x

  The text delivered last month to the iPhone 11 made no sound. It produced no image. It offered no warning of any kind as an iMessage from somebody she didn't know delivered malware directly onto her phone — and past Apple's security systems. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @khalidbshah Khalid Shah on x

  Despite the hype, iPhone security no match for NSO spyware International investigation finds 23 Apple devices that were successfully hacked https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @kimzetter Kim Zetter on x

  Activists and journalists around the world who face imprisonment and potentially death are concerned about the security of their devices and the no-click malware that can silently infect their fully-patched phones, and Apple pr is concerned about being quoted https://twitter.com/…

• @pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings on x

  Or put it another way, we're past the point where we can seriously believe we'll ever bug-fix our way out of these parsers having exploitable bugs, and so now the question is where the investment is to replace them and why that investment is so low.

• @pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings on x

  For journos, a follow up question would be “how many engineers will Apple now assign to rewriting the exploited iOS image parsers in a memory-safe language” https://twitter.com/...

• @pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings on x

  A lot of problems in cybersecurity can't be fixed by just throwing engineers and money at it. But those specific parsers? This is an example where really can spend your way to closing the attack surface.

• @datadrivenmd Jorge A. Caballero on x

  🔥 This part of the story isn't getting enough attention: this espionage-for-hire company can turn any iPhone into a surveillance device without the user ever knowing about it— that means taking photos, turning on your microphone, and more https://twitter.com/...

• @neilmacfarquhar Neil MacFarquhar on x

  Claim by @Apple that iPhones thwart spyware are a lie as numerous rights activists, journalists and others have found that even their latest models were infected by Israeli-made,"zero-click" spyware called Pegasus. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...