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Mark Mazzetti

@markmazzettinyt
11 posts
2023-04-03
NEW: Days after the White House in 2021 blacklisted NSO, the notorious Israeli hacking firm, a secret contract was signed for a hacking tool. The contract states that the USG is the user. A thread https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-04-03 View on X
New York Times

Sources: in November 2021, five days after Joe Biden put NSO on a Commerce Department blocklist, a US government front company licensed NSO's geolocation tool

The Biden administration has been trying to choke off use of hacking tools made by the Israeli firm NSO.

2022-01-29
Several American firms are getting into this action. One firm, funded by Peter Thiel, boasted in a presentation obtained by The Times that, at one point, it had the capability to hack WhatsApp. WhatsApp is owned by Facebook, and Thiel is on the Facebooks's board. Happy Reading!
2022-01-29 View on X
New York Times

An investigation into the rise of NSO's Pegasus shows its widespread use by the CIA, UAE, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and others; the FBI bought but didn't use it

Firstly, welcome to my new blog!  (Or is it a “newsletter”?) Tweets: Eva / @evacide : Here I am, having taken to my fainting couch, wearing my finest clutching pearls, because NSO ...

NSO is effectively a tool of the Israeli government, one Israel uses to gain diplomatic leverage. Netanyahu used Pegasus to knit together a new generation of global far-right leaders from Israel, Poland, Hungary, India and elsewhere
2022-01-29 View on X
New York Times

An investigation into the rise of NSO's Pegasus shows its widespread use by the CIA, UAE, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and others; the FBI bought but didn't use it

Firstly, welcome to my new blog!  (Or is it a “newsletter”?) Tweets: Eva / @evacide : Here I am, having taken to my fainting couch, wearing my finest clutching pearls, because NSO ...

The United States blacklisted NSO in November after countless stories of Pegasus being used against dissidents, journalists etc. What you didn't know was that, beginning in 2019, the FBI paid millions to NSO as the bureau considered deploying Pegasus in the U.S.
2022-01-29 View on X
New York Times

An investigation into the rise of NSO's Pegasus shows its widespread use by the CIA, UAE, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and others; the FBI bought but didn't use it

Firstly, welcome to my new blog!  (Or is it a “newsletter”?) Tweets: Eva / @evacide : Here I am, having taken to my fainting couch, wearing my finest clutching pearls, because NSO ...

In 2018, the C.I.A. bought Pegasus for the government of Djibouti, a country that has an established record of human rights abuses.
2022-01-29 View on X
New York Times

An investigation into the rise of NSO's Pegasus shows its widespread use by the CIA, UAE, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and others; the FBI bought but didn't use it

Firstly, welcome to my new blog!  (Or is it a “newsletter”?) Tweets: Eva / @evacide : Here I am, having taken to my fainting couch, wearing my finest clutching pearls, because NSO ...

NEW: A deep investigation into NSO, the notorious hacking firm, w/@ronenbergman for @NYTmag. Short thread on some revelations 1/ https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-01-29 View on X
New York Times

An investigation into the rise of NSO's Pegasus shows its widespread use by the CIA, UAE, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and others; the FBI bought but didn't use it

Firstly, welcome to my new blog!  (Or is it a “newsletter”?) Tweets: Eva / @evacide : Here I am, having taken to my fainting couch, wearing my finest clutching pearls, because NSO ...

2022-01-28
NSO is effectively a tool of the Israeli government, one Israel uses to gain diplomatic leverage. Netanyahu used Pegasus to knit together a new generation of global far-right leaders from Israel, Poland, Hungary, India and elsewhere
2022-01-28 View on X
New York Times

An investigation into the rise of NSO's Pegasus shows its widespread use by the CIA, UAE, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and others; the FBI bought but didn't use it

A Times investigation reveals how Israel reaped diplomatic gains around the world from NSO's Pegasus spyware — a tool America itself purchased but is now trying to ban.

The United States blacklisted NSO in November after countless stories of Pegasus being used against dissidents, journalists etc. What you didn't know was that, beginning in 2019, the FBI paid millions to NSO as the bureau considered deploying Pegasus in the U.S.
2022-01-28 View on X
New York Times

An investigation into the rise of NSO's Pegasus shows its widespread use by the CIA, UAE, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and others; the FBI bought but didn't use it

A Times investigation reveals how Israel reaped diplomatic gains around the world from NSO's Pegasus spyware — a tool America itself purchased but is now trying to ban.

In 2018, the C.I.A. bought Pegasus for the government of Djibouti, a country that has an established record of human rights abuses.
2022-01-28 View on X
New York Times

An investigation into the rise of NSO's Pegasus shows its widespread use by the CIA, UAE, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and others; the FBI bought but didn't use it

A Times investigation reveals how Israel reaped diplomatic gains around the world from NSO's Pegasus spyware — a tool America itself purchased but is now trying to ban.

Several American firms are getting into this action. One firm, funded by Peter Thiel, boasted in a presentation obtained by The Times that, at one point, it had the capability to hack WhatsApp. WhatsApp is owned by Facebook, and Thiel is on the Facebooks's board. Happy Reading!
2022-01-28 View on X
New York Times

An investigation into the rise of NSO's Pegasus shows its widespread use by the CIA, UAE, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and others; the FBI bought but didn't use it

A Times investigation reveals how Israel reaped diplomatic gains around the world from NSO's Pegasus spyware — a tool America itself purchased but is now trying to ban.

NEW: A deep investigation into NSO, the notorious hacking firm, w/@ronenbergman for @NYTmag. Short thread on some revelations 1/ https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-01-28 View on X
New York Times

An investigation into the rise of NSO's Pegasus shows its widespread use by the CIA, UAE, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and others; the FBI bought but didn't use it

A Times investigation reveals how Israel reaped diplomatic gains around the world from NSO's Pegasus spyware — a tool America itself purchased but is now trying to ban.